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Donate now to give a gift that keeps on living

Your donation to British Heart Foundation (BHF) this Christmas can help fund lifesaving research that could give people with cardiovascular disease more time with the people they love. 

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At Christmas, we usually gift material things. But this year, we’re asking people to gift something that can’t be unwrapped.

Thanks to BHF-funded research and lifesaving breakthroughs, you could help give someone with a heart condition the gift of more life.

More memories with family and friends, and more festive seasons.

When you donate, you give a gift that keeps on living.

Your gift could help save lives

Every year, around 170,000 people die from cardiovascular disease in the UK. But scientific research is helping more people, like Amalie, survive, spend precious moments with family, and celebrate more Christmases together.

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Amalie in front of a beige sofa at home wearing red festive pyjamas.

Help more children get home for Christmas

Thanks to lifesaving research, Amalie was able to spend her first Christmas at home with her family.
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Amalie on the sofa hugging a doll with her parents' arms around her, wearing red Christmas pyjamas and festive socks.

Peter’s heart transplant was during the Christmas season

Thanks to decades of research, identical twins Patrick and Peter both had lifesaving heart transplants and are enjoying family milestones they once feared they might miss.
Read Patrick and Peter’s story
Patrick and Peter sit at a table smiling, wearing navy jackets, with a Christmas tree behind them.

The smart T-shirt giving hope to Carly’s family

Carly is helping researchers test a smart T-shirt that uses AI to detect abnormal heart rhythms, giving hope that she and her sister Jodie can share many more Christmases together while living with Brugada syndrome.
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Carly and her sister Jodie on a sofa in a warmly-lit room.
I get to spend more Christmases with my granddaughter.
Rebecca survived a heart attack less than a week before Christmas. Today, researchers are developing an AI tool that could help predict heart attacks years in advance.
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Rebecca sits on a sofa in front of a Christmas tree smiling, wearing a red spotty blouse.

Why we need your support

  • 8 million+ in the UK live with cardiovascular disease
  • 1 in 250 have an inherited heart muscle condition
  • 1 in 4 die from cardiovascular disease in the UK

Other ways you can support

Buy from our Christmas shop

Whether you’re after Christmas cards, candles, scarves or socks, buy them from BHF’s Christmas shop to help support lifesaving research.

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Take part in the BHF Raffle

Enter our latest raffle from just £1 per ticket for the chance to win up to £1,000. You must be 18 years of age or over to enter.

Enter the raffle

Learn more about our research

We are currently supporting 39 clinical trials worth around £34m across the UK. Learn more about the lifesaving research we fund.

Discover our research
To find out more, or to support British Heart Foundation’s work, please visit www.bhf.org.uk. You can speak to one of our cardiac nurses by calling our helpline on 0808 802 1234 (freephone), Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. For general customer service enquiries, please call 0300 330 3322, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

British Heart Foundation is a registered Charity No. 225971. Registered as a Company limited by guarantee in England & Wales No. 699547. Registered office at Greater London House, 180 Hampstead Road, London NW1 7AW. Registered as a Charity in Scotland No. SC039426