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    British Heart Foundation Reviews

    Updated 16 May 2018
    176 reviews

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    British Heart Foundation Chief Executive Simon Gillespie
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    44 Ratings

    176 Employee Reviews

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    • You can't blame their culture for having so few paid staff, therefore raising so much more for important research (in 11 reviews)

    • the shop floor wasn't very wheelchair frendly (in 9 reviews)

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    1. "Best place I've ever worked"

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      • Senior Management
      Current Employee - Assistant Manager in Wolverhampton, England
      Current Employee - Assistant Manager in Wolverhampton, England
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at British Heart Foundation full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Meeting lots of lovely People, great working environment, never a dull moment, very supportive management

      Cons

      No complaints from me, very happy to be here

      Advice to Management

      Thank you !

    2. "Store manager/area trainer"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at British Heart Foundation full-time

      Pros

      Great to work for, look after all staff

      Cons

      Depends where you work in the country for finding volunteers

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    3. "Volunteer Experience"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at British Heart Foundation full-time

      Pros

      People there are kind and generous

      Cons

      Not a lot to do

    4. "British Heart Foundation - Assistant Manager"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at British Heart Foundation full-time

      Pros

      Great atmosphere
      Friendly Staff and Volunteers

      Cons

      Charity = Low salary

    5. "Data Analyst"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at British Heart Foundation full-time

      Pros

      Good work and life balance, friendly atmosphere. Company really values employees opinions and try to make the office a great place to work. Flexible working hours and working from home offered.

      Cons

      As in any big organization, it's often difficult to get things done as it has to go through many people to get anything approved. Often there are no strict deadlines which makes planning difficult.

      Advice to Management

      Do a review of how the work could be optimized using available resources instead of increasing headcount. Bring the departments closer together in working to increase productivity of everybody.

    6. "money well spent on research"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at British Heart Foundation full-time

      Pros

      Inspiring to see how much has been achieved with public donations to medical research in last 50 or so years, and this is motivating for the future.

      Cons

      Large organisation with communication issues between teams.

    7. "Confusing"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      Pros

      Well structured company making huge moves forward in retail. Lots of interesting stuff coming up in 2018. Spending money to make money.

      Cons

      Given completely different info, feedback and instruction from my line manager and training manager. Each making me look bad in front of the other one. Was told to be more confident and less confident. Was told to ask lots of questions then told off for questioning tue work of the charity. Walked on egg shells for a week before quitting as I wont work well under a manager im terrified of. Line manager threatened to take my car keys off me in progress meeting when I hadn't committed gross misconduct. Called me girl and young lady. I'm nearly 30. Despite the company stating it wants young fresh people working for it.

      Advice to Management

      Communication to shop training managers of what is expected of them when they're training field management.

    8. "Worse place I've ever worked"

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      Former Employee - Sales Assistant in Sheffield, England
      Former Employee - Sales Assistant in Sheffield, England
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at British Heart Foundation part-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Assistant manager really nice has actually become a friend outside work

      Cons

      No training expected to know everything a baby sitting service

      Advice to Management

      Train staff more better screening for volenteers and stop the bullying....would avoid working here at all costs awful company allows members of staff to bully each other and does nothing to stop it

    9. Helpful (1)

      "dreadful"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at British Heart Foundation full-time

      Pros

      Good cause although a dreadful waste of money in head office

      Cons

      Very big bullying culture ,from upper management ,do not appreciate efforts of shop staff or helpers not supportive of shop managers .head office have good lip service but no backup and do nothing about bullying despite many complaints about one regional manager in particular.no compassion for staff that become ill. Best ever thing I did was to leave ,after nearly 10 years

      Advice to Management

      Remind your self that you are supposed to be a charity

    10. "Vulenteer"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at British Heart Foundation part-time

      Pros

      friendly staff, nice environment, good location

      Cons

      no jobs available, only volunteer work was given

      British Heart Foundation Response

      18 Apr 2018

      Thank you for your review ! Great to get such positive feedback as it is so important that our amazing volunteers enjoy their time with us !

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