How We Help

Children’s Heart Federation helps children with a heart defect and their families by:

Providing direct support

• Giving information and advice (telephone helpline, factsheets, publications,  this website and making presentations at seminars and conferences);
• Providing specialist medical equipment;
• Giving out small grants to help families meet unexpected costs;
• Organising trips that bring families together for mutual support and respite from the daily strains of life with a heart condition.

Campaigning for support and services

• Working in partnership with other organisations to develop policy and campaign on issues that affect families of children with a heart condition.
• Consulting with families through meetings and surveys, to understand their priorities for services;
• Regular briefings on issues of interest to carers of a child with a heart problem;

If you find any of the information in these pages useful, please consider making a donation or offering support to the UK’s leading children’s heart charity.