Our mission is to make a difference to the lives of heart children and their families.

At ECHO, we know that discovering your child has a potentially life threatening heart condition is one of the hardest things any parent can hear. Many families find it difficult to cope and welcome additional support, which is why ECHO exists.

To find out what we achieved during 2017 please read our ECHO-impact-report-2017

Our aims for the next year

We want to have an even greater impact and have committed to helping even more families over the next year.

In spite of being a small charity, we aim to have a big impact and are committed to making ambitious changes. We will always work with members to provide the service they need and value the relationships we have with them. 

• Develop our funding bids to provide support to teenagers with heart conditions and their siblings.
• Increase our music therapy sessions offered at Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
• Introduce our ECHO Teens with a series of Hubs and events, offering more opportunities for young people with heart conditions and their siblings to meet, have fun and share experiences.
• Expand our website resources for our members such as information about disability living allowance.
• Review our training and support which we offer to our volunteers.
• Build communities by holding local events for heart families to meet others locally to them.
• Recruit two new trustees to join the ECHO team.

Thank you to our supporters for helping us to achieve everything we have so far – we need your support going forwards.