Royal Free Charity | Here for you

Here for you

Helping patients and families to have a better experience throughout their NHS journey

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We are the NHS charity partner of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We support our hospitals to go further, faster and deliver more world firsts – for the patients they care for locally, and for the care they can impact globally. 

Our services bolster the care and treatment you and your loved ones receive at Barnet, Chase Farm and the Royal Free hospitals:

  • Our purple-shirted volunteers make a real difference by helping on hospital wards, showing visitors how to find their way round our busy hospitals, playing music and keeping our gardens growing – and much more!
  • Our massage therapists help patients to manage pain, feel more comfortable and recover faster while relieving stress for our hard-working NHS staff.
  • Our support hub offers advice to patients who need extra help with welfare rights, money worries and housing. This service is a lifeline for those with long-term illnesses and we even help to prevent homelessness.

Through our funding, we accelerate improvement and innovation beyond what the NHS can provide. We fund research that helps to find better ways of treating patients. And through the money we raise, we can buy new equipment for our hospitals to diagnose and treat patients faster.

Everything we do is thanks to the generosity of our supporters. 

Scroll down to find out how you can get involved.

Thanking NHS staff

There are lots of ways you can thank the NHS staff who care for you, from making a donation or taking part in a fundraising event to volunteering at your local hospital or signing up to be a Royal Free Charity ambassador. 

Supporter stories

See how others have made a real difference by giving back to support patients, staff and research at the Royal Free London.

Keeping in touch

We’d love to keep you posted with news on the work we fund, the way we support the work in our hospitals and beyond, our events, campaigns, volunteering opportunities and appeals. 

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