Tag: BHF

Speedy Hire partners with British Heart Foundation to support ‘Spotlight On’ campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Speedy Hire, the UK’s leading provider of tools, equipment, and plant hire services, has donated £25,000 to the British Heart Foundation (BHF), forming a partnership for its ‘Spotlight On’ campaign, to raise awareness of hidden heart conditions. Colleagues across the Speedy Hire business have recently been sharing stories of their surprise and shock that they had personally experienced mistaking a heart attack diagnosis with less serious medical symptoms such as breathlessness and dizziness. These eye-opening stories prompted Speedy Hire to build on the work it already undertakes with the charity…

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David Seaman shines a spotlight on daily heart disease deaths

Stuart Mitchell

Football legend David Seaman MBE and over 200 supporters came together to shine a spotlight on hidden heart conditions and their impact on the nation every day. Creating a giant heart, one hundred and eighty seats were left empty in a crowded stand at Crystal Palace F.C. in London, to represent the number of lives lost in the UK to coronary heart disease each day – one every eight minutes. British Heart Foundation ambassador David Seaman, who himself lives with a heart condition, was at the centre of the striking…

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PureGym installs BHF donation boxes nationwide

Stuart Mitchell

The UK’s leading gym chain, PureGym, is supporting BHFs vital heart research through the help of preloved donations. In 2022, BHF joined forces with PureGym as part of a multi-million pound charity partnership to help improve the nation’s heart health. Funds raised will fuel their scientific research, helping to accelerate medical breakthroughs in heart and circulatory conditions, which affect around 7.6 million people across the UK. Call for preloved items Donation boxes have been set up in each of PureGym’s 340+ clubs across the UK, calling for preloved clothes, household…

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BHF publishes Gender and Ethnicity Pay Gap Report 2022

Stuart Mitchell

The BHF have announced their Gender & ethnicity Pay Gap report on their website as follows: We’re pleased to share our latest Gender Pay Gap Report and announce that our gender pay gap has closed significantly this year.  Gender pay gap The report shows that our median gender pay gap now stands at just 0.1% for 2022, down from 1.0% in 2021, in favour of female colleagues. The calculations on our median gender pay gap show that in 2022, women were paid 1p more than men, compared with 19p more…

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BHF supports Virgin Media O2’s rollout of defibrillators and CPR training

Stuart Mitchell

The BHF have partnered with Virgin Media O2 to put more than 200 lifesaving defibrillators in all of its owned stores in the UK.   Virgin Media O2 is also rolling out our first-of-its-kind CPR training tool RevivR to its staff and customers. RevivR is an innovative tool that teaches the user CPR and defibrillation skills in just 15 minutes – all you need is a phone and a firm cushion.  There are over 30,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests every year in the UK, but currently, fewer than one in ten people…

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