Get to know
Swansea Bay Health Charity
We’re the official charity of Swansea Bay University Health Board and manage a range of different charitable funds supporting a wide variety of departments and services.
Last year nearly £700,000 was raised by our fundraisers and supporters
as well as from legacies and grants, with that money being ploughed into making possible the projects, events and activities which make such a difference to the lives of our patients and our communities.
Our supporters have run, cycled, climbed mountains, baked cakes – you name it, they’ve done it!
We have many different events and fundraising ideas to choose from or you’re free to get creative and dream up your own.
Fundraising and getting involved
Become a Charity Champion or a Charity Ambassador
Take a look at our major Appeals
Whatever you’d like to do, whether for your own personal reasons or because you’d just like to help make a difference, we’d love to hear from you and we will make sure the money you raise goes directly to our departments and wards.
Find out more information about our activities, our annual accounts and a list of our trustees.
Our health board in focus
Swansea Bay is one of seven health boards in Wales and provides NHS care and services for around 400,000 people living in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot, from Margam in the east to Gower in the west and on to the upper Afan, Dulais, Neath and Swansea valleys.
We employ around 14,000 staff, we’re also supported by more than 250 wonderful volunteers and have a budget of around £1.4bn, which pays for services ranging from contracted primary care, including our 45 GP surgeries, our pharmacies, opticians and dentists. We also provide community-based services such as district nursing and health visiting and secondary care at our main Morriston, Singleton and Neath Port Talbot hospitals, as well as Gorseinon Community Hospital. Mental health and learning disability services are also provided across and beyond our area.
In addition, we provide specialist regional services such as for cancer – we’re home to the South West Wales Cancer Centre – cardiac and renal care and burns and plastic surgery for our own communities in Swansea Bay and to other parts of south and west Wales and the south west of England.
Many of our staff are involved in ground-breaking research and innovation which is helping our health board and other organisations both nationally and internationally deliver the healthcare of tomorrow, today.
Some of the challenges we face
The area we serve has been hit hard by the decline of heavy industry in recent decades while the expected impact of thousands of job losses at the Tata Steel plant is, at the time of writing, starting to be felt.
We have more deprived communities than average for Wales with over 1 in 4 areas in Swansea Bay falling into the most deprived category.
As a health board we’re aware of the clear links between deprivation and health, with significant inequalities regarding life expectancy and health outcomes among our poorest and wealthiest neighbourhoods and we’re currently working with many partners and stakeholders on ways to tackle inequalities and make lasting improvements to our population’s health and wellbeing.
