About Us

Basingstoke & Alton Cardiac Rehabilitation Charity Ltd
Company limited by guarantee, registered in England no. 2732756
Charity registration no. 1013238

Contact details and how to find us             List of trustees and key staff 

Click here for a short history of Cardiac Rehab.

Cardiac Rehab operates in purpose-built premises at Alton in Hampshire. Click here for more information on the Centre's facilities, including meeting rooms available for hire.

Our services revolve around a gym in which are run exercise sessions for the purpose of cardiac rehabilitation, exclusively for people referred in from hospitals, GPs and other health professionals. As specialists in our field we provide an exercise environment that is safe, secure, unintimidating and friendly. We provide:

- Facilities for an NHS clinical team to run Phase III cardiac rehabilitation courses for patients discharged from the North Hampshire Hospital in Basingstoke (and from other hospitals on request).  The hospital also runs a Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinic from our site.

- Our own Phase IV cardiac rehabilitation "continuing exercise" sessions, open to anyone referred to us by a health professional. Clients travel to us from within an approximate 20 mile radius, including from Basingstoke, Winchester, Farnham, Petersfield and Fleet, and often exercise regularly with us for years.  We run over 40 hours of classes per week and have over 20,000 client attendances per year.  These exercise sessions are also attended by people on our Staywell Scheme for the primary prevention of heart disease.

All of our exercise instructors are qualified to standards set by the British Association for Cardiac Rehabilitation (BACR Phase IV) and all staff at the Centre are trained in cardiac resuscitation techniques.

It costs about £200,000 each year to run and support the Cardiac Rehab Centre.  To help meet these costs we must raise about £100,000 each year through donations, fundraising events and similar.  The charity's most recent annual report and accounts can be found at the Charity Commission's website.