The Foundation donated £25,000 to the British Heart Foundation (BHF) in season 23/24, encouraged supporters to learn lifesaving CPR via BHF’s free on-line tool, RevivR, and promoted heart health and the work of the British Heart Foundation.

RevivR allows people to learn CPR in just 15 minutes and aims to give people the skills and confidence to save a life. It teaches people how to recognise a cardiac arrest, gives feedback on chest compressions and outlines the correct steps in using a defibrillator. All people need is a mobile phone and a firm cushion. RevivR can be downloaded HERE.

An estimated 700,000 people are living with heart and circulatory diseases in Scotland and the conditions are some of Scotland’s biggest killers, causing around 50 deaths each day.

Former Rangers player and Manager Graeme Souness helped the Foundation announce the BHF Scotland as our new National Charity Partner on world heart day.  Souness has personal experience of heart disease and understands firsthand how important the work of the BHF is.

Souness said: “I was diagnosed with coronary heart disease at 38 and had a triple bypass. When I was diagnosed, I was extremely fit. I never thought I’d be the type of person to get heart disease, but if it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone.

“Ten years later, I had a stent fitted as another one of my arteries had become blocked. Then in November 2015, I was rushed to hospital after suffering a heart attack at home.

“Thankfully, I’m now OK, but without the research the BHF has helped fund into heart and circulatory diseases, it could have been a different story.”

The British Heart Foundation is the UK’s leading heart charity. Its vision is a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases and the charity raises money to research cures and treatments to give people more time with the ones they love. For those living with heart and circulatory diseases the BHF also offers a Heart Helpline for guidance, support and help with access to the services they need. For more information visit bhf.org.uk

Take a look at RevivR HERE and you could save a life!