Major gifts
Our fight against heart disease requires long-term
investment. This is why the support we receive from individuals,
charitable trusts and foundations is essential.
Heart pioneers - Donors who give between
£1,000 and £25,000 a year are part of our Patron’s Programme, Heart
Pioneers. Your support could fund research and
studentships, young people's projects, prevention and care activity
or our Mending Broken
Hearts appeal.
Trusts and foundations - Your gift can
support a specific project or you can choose to allow us to
allocate it to where the need is greatest. Whichever option you
choose, we will work closely with you ensuring you are kept
informed of how your gift has made a difference.
Events - We hold exciting special events
throughout the year such as our
Tunnel of Love party, which will be held on 29 May
2012. Click here for more information and to book your
ticket.
How you can help
Funding Community resuscitation – immediate
action to save lives
In the UK each year around 30,000 people suffer
a cardiac arrest, nearly half of which are witnessed by helpless
bystanders. Sadly, due to lack of knowledge and
training, over 27,000 of
these casulaties do not survive - that’s just a
10% chance of survival.
We're reaching out to local communities and
our Community Resuscitation Technicians provide training sessions
in Emergency Life Saving skills (ELS) with the use of
defibrillators.
- A gift of £14,000 will provide 10 mobile heart
defibrillators.
- A gift of £31,000 will fund a Community
Resuscitation Technician for a year to work across the UK and
deliver vital training and information.
- A transformational gift of £94,000 will cover
the full costs of a technician and equipment for 3 years,
providing lifesaving knowledge to support larger numbers of new
Community First Responders.
Funding innovation through leadership and excellence
- Research Fellows & Chairs
Dr Vivek Muthurangu is a BHF funded Research
Fellow leading the Vascular Imaging and Physics Group at UCL. He
and his team are working on MRI technologies and developing
new ways to image the heart in real-time, enabling children with
congenital heart disease to be assessed in a safer and less
distressing environment.
- A gift of £67,000 will fund
the costs of a BHF Research Fellow and their experimental equipment
for an entire year, enabling them to carry out their invaluable
research.
- A gift of £200,000 will
support one of our Research Fellows to advance their work over
three years making it possible to affect real change in our
lifetime, ending the suffering of those living with heart
disease.
Funding pioneering breakthroughs for the future -
PHD students
Patricia Gyambibi-Barnett is a PHD student at King’s College
London exploring the role that stem cells play in forming new,
healthy blood cells. Patricia’s research aims to help the
team to advance current technologies making them more efficient,
bringing us a step closer to our ultimate goal of mending broken
hearts. This year, we will support the work and research of
more than 200 PHD students across the UK:
- A gift of £10,000 will fund
the full costs of equipment and research materials used by one of
our PHD students each year.
- £34,000 will fund the salary
and University fees, for one of our PHD research students for a
year.
- A long-term investment of
£130,000 in the work of one of our
Researchers will fund their work in its entirety, providing the
stability of 3 years funding as well as the vital resources and
materials.
Contact us
If you would like to find out more about our
work and discuss how you can help by making a major gift, contact
us today.
Phone: 020 7554
0318
Email: majorprojects@bhf.org.uk
Post: Major Projects,
British Heart Foundation, Greater London House, 180 Hampstead Road,
London, NW1 7AW.