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Our partnership with Sky Bet

Together with Sky Bet, we’re encouraging thousands of football fans to learn lifesaving CPR and placing more defibrillators into communities most in need.

About our partnership

Our partnership with Sky Bet will:

  • raise up to £3 million to support British Heart Foundation’s vital work
  • encourage football fans to learn the lifesaving skill of CPR with our Every Minute Matters campaign

In our 1st year of partnership, we reached an enormous 300,000 football fans with CPR training through our RevivR tool.

Funding BHF's vital work

When someone suffers a cardiac arrest, every minute without CPR and defibrillation decreases their chance of survival by 10%. Sky Bet’s funding will help us to place defibrillators in areas of most need in the UK and train more people in lifesaving CPR.

When we hear of a seemingly healthy athlete or young person collapsing suddenly, the cause is often a genetic cardiomyopathy. Sky Bet’s funding will go towards CureHeart, a world-leading research initiative that aims to bring a cure to clinical trials within 5 years.

Every Minute Matters Relay

In March and April 2025, Sky Bet launched the Every Minute Matters Relay with the English Football League (EFL) and British Heart Foundation, a 4 week long event spanning all 72 EFL clubs, which inspired thousands of fans to start their CPR training. You can learn CPR in 15 minutes with RevivR.  

Sky Bet Every Minute Matters Relay

Re-Start 11 championing heart health

The Re-Start 11 is made up of ex-footballers, players and football fans who survived cardiac arrests, overcame heart health issues, or delivered lifesaving CPR. During the 2024/25 Play-Offs, they:

Footballers wearing red t-shirts that read 'Every Minute Matters' in a stadium.