Charity Fund
The Charities
British Heart Foundation
Make a Wish
Alzheimer's Society
About this fund
A fund by thursday
Created 22/11/2021
Because there's more to life than dating apps. We nominate a different charity each month and support them with the help of our users. Our next three charities are the Make a Wish Foundation, Alzheimer's Society and British Heart Foundation.
Why we support these causes
Right now over 60,000 children are living with a critical condition.
Heart and circulatory diseases cause a quarter of all deaths in the UK – an average of 460 deaths each day or one every three minutes in the UK.
The cost of social care for people with dementia is set to nearly treble by 2040, increasing from £15.7billion to £45.4billion.
There are currently around 850,000 people with dementia in the UK. This is projected to rise to 1.6 million by 2040.