Tag: British Heart Foundation

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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Screwfix installs lifesaving defibrillators in all its stores in UK and Ireland in partnership with the British Heart Foundation

Stuart Mitchell

Screwfix has partnered with the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to roll out defibrillators in all of its stores across the UK and Ireland, becoming the first trade retailer to roll-out defibrillators on this scale.  With more than 870 stores across the UK and Ireland, Screwfix is perfectly placed to provide the lifesaving devices in the communities it serves and has worked with BHF to determine what would be best the approach to take to help save more lives. A defibrillator is a device that gives a controlled high energy electric…

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Royal Mail announces four-year national charity partnership with the British Heart Foundation

Stuart Mitchell

Royal Mail employees have chosen the British Heart Foundation as its new national charity partner for 2022-2026. The UK’s leading heart health charity will benefit from a four-year partnership with Royal Mail. Employees will be encouraged to raise £2 million, volunteer and provide pro bono support for the charity. The money raised will fund the new Royal Mail Community Hearts programme, which is aiming to: Deliver CPR training for 1 million young people Fund hundreds of Community defibrillators Develop accessible heart health information for the nation Earlier this year, Royal…

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British Heart Foundation announced as charity of the year for 2022 TCS London Marathon

Stuart Mitchell

British Heart Foundation have been announced as Charity of the Year for the 2022 TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) London Marathon.   Through the partnership, they’re aiming to help heal hearts across the UK by raising £3 million for research into regenerative medicine that could one day find a cure for heart failure.  Nearly a million people in the UK are living with heart failure. The money raised by runners will help the BHF fund cutting-edge research into regenerative medicine that could lead to new treatments within a generation.  Heart failure can…

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