Our vision, mission, values and strategy

Airedale Hospital & Community Charity is the dedicated charity of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust (ANHSFT).

We support the staff, patients and communities of Airedale across 700 square miles of West and North Yorkshire and East Lancashire. We want everyone who uses ANHSFT services to receive the best possible care and support.

Our Charity was formed in 1995, originally known as Airedale NHS Trust Charitable Funds.

In 2020 we rebranded and became known as Airedale Hospital & Community Charity to ensure we reflected our mission and values both for now and into the future.

map of Airedale catchment area and surrounding areas with Craven, Bradford and Airedale highlighted and Airedale NHS Foundation Trust's sites (Castleberg Hospital, Settle Health Centre, Skipton Hospital, Ilkley Coronation, and Airedale Hospital) all marked

Our vision

Our vision is to contribute to ensuring that everyone who needs ANHSFT’s services or who is employed by ANHSFT receives the best possible care and support.

Our mission

Our mission is to support ANHSFT to enhance patient care and employee wellbeing by raising awareness, proactively generating funds and supporting others.

Our values

We promise:

We will always put you first
We will always respect your confidentiality and your right to privacy
We will never put you under any pressure and always respect your choice
We will always work in a timely, effective and cost-efficient way
We will always use gifts wisely. We respect our position as custodians of supporters’ donations
Even though we don’t know what the future might hold we will always do our best to uphold any wishes you have about the use of a gift or donation

To achieve this, we have four strategic objectives:

To empower and assist Airedale NHS Foundation Trust to be an anchor organisation within the community
To promote understanding of and increase charitable giving to Airedale Hospital & Community Charity and demonstrate the difference this makes
To champion, influence and invest in areas across ANHSFT in line with the Trust 5 Ps strategy. This will include providing support for our colleagues; putting our patients and population at the heart of everything we do; working together in partnership; and always moving forward and progressing
To be an efficient, responsive, financially sound, sustainable, and well-governed organisation, that leads by example. We will actively promote and champion equality, diversity and inclusion, and invest in and care for our staff