British Heart Foundation (BHF) has reported that it has no median gender and ethnicity pay gaps.
Its Gender and Ethnicity Pay Gap Report 2025 shows a median gender pay gap of zero, compared to the UK average of 12.8%. The charity’s median ethnicity pay gap is also zero.
The report found that BHF’s median gender pay gap is zero, compared with 1.7% in favour of women in 2024. The report also shows BHF continues to reduce its mean gender pay gap, which stands at 7.1% in favour of men, down from 8.1% in 2024.
BHF voluntarily reports its ethnicity pay gap. This year, BHF’s median ethnicity pay gap is zero. Its mean ethnicity pay gap is 3.8% in favour of minority ethnic employees, which reflects the current distribution of roles in the workforce.
Accpording to the charity, it is redoubling its efforts with new ambitions to advance equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI).
These ambitions include building a diverse, inclusive BHF where everyone can belong, thrive, and access equitable opportunities for progression; ensuring BHF-funded research is inclusive by design and supports a more representative cardiovascular research community; and highlighting cardiovascular inequalities to drive and influence change through evidence, policy, and patient support.
BHF set out its commitment to improving EDI in its strategy Igniting Change in 2022. The strategy has since introduced equal paid parental leave, remodelling of BHF’s customer support centre in Birmingham for wheelchair accessibility, the creation of a low sensory zone in London for neurodiverse employees, the launch of a leadership and talent programme for female and minority ethnic employees and the creation of an anti-racism statement, shaped by employees across BHF, that aims to address systemic racism.
Dr Charmaine Griffiths, chief executive of BHF, and sponsor of the charity’s EDI programme, said: “Heart disease is a disease of inequality, shaped by where you live, your income, your gender and your ethnicity. That’s why tackling inequality is core to our mission to ensure that everyone has a healthier heart for longer.
“We know a more diverse research community is critical to delivering science that benefits more people, and that being representative of the communities we serve makes us a more powerful team.
“We are pleased to report we don’t have a gender and ethnicity pay gap, and remain steadfast in our determination to ensure equality, diversity and inclusion across our life saving work.”
