Making our vision a reality

BHF research - British Heart FoundationOur vision couldn’t be much more ambitious - a world where people no longer die prematurely from heart disease.

When you have a vision that big in mind, it helps to set some milestones along the way. That’s why we’ve set a number of objectives to guide our day-to-day work.

But we can’t do any of it alone. We are working alongside government, other health charities, healthcare professionals and thousands of dedicated supporters to beat heart disease. Everybody has a part to play.

Aims and objectives

Our mission is to play a leading role in the fight against disease of the heart and circulation, so that it is no longer a major cause of disability and premature death.

In our strategy report, Beating heart disease together (published in 2007), we stated that:

Within a generation, we aim to:

  • reduce cardiovascular disease in the UK to one of the lowest levels in Europe.

Within a decade, we aim to:

  • halve the number of people under 75 who die from cardiovascular disease
  • make sure at least two thirds of people under 75 survive a heart attack
  • reduce heart-related deaths in all UK local authority areas to the current level in South East England or below
  • reverse the increase in childhood obesity.

To help us get there, we’ve set a number of objectives across the following areas:

To make all this work possible, we rely on your generous donation of time and money.