Take Heart

Take Heart was founded in 1989 and since then has raised more than six million pounds to fund projects, both major and minor. We are committed to giving care and comfort to patients and their families at the Yorkshire Heart Centre at Leeds General Infirmary and St James Hospital and its Units within the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. We endeavour to ensure that patients and their families enjoy the very best of comfort within the Yorkshire Heart Centre at what can be a very stressful time. The charity is run entirely voluntarily, so the vast majority of funds go directly to the projects for which they are intended. Some of the things the charity provides are free TV, phone calls, and internet access to heart patients at their bedside, a rooftop garden for patients and their families to use, a suite of rooms for families to stay in who live too far away from the hospital, and numerous amounts of equipment and furniture for the heart wards throughout the hospital.