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Help, facts & lifestyle advice

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  • How your heart works
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Ethnicity and heart disease

Picnic table

Your ethnicity can affect your risk of heart disease. Find out how you can reduce that risk.

Find out more

How we help

Heart helpline

Heart Matters
Heartstart UK
Heart Support Groups
Health at Work
Hearty Lives

Get Involved

Events, fundraising & campaigning

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  • Events
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  • Fundraising
  • In your area
  • How your company can help
  • If you live in a Heart Town

Cycle Clock2Rock

London Paris BikeRide group cycling

Join us on our inaugural Clock2Rock bike ride and cycle from London to Gibraltar for the adventure of a lifetime.

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Our events

BHF Events

Walk, ride, run or swim to help raise vital funds for us. And find out about our new cycling events...

Find an event
New bike rides coming soon
Organise your own event

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High street & online shopping

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  • Shop online
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A taste of Britain

Everyday British cookbook

Our Everyday British recipe book gives a healthy twist to those traditional British meals

Buy our cookbook

Book a collection

Book a collection

We'll collect your unwanted furniture and electrical goods to sell in our stores.

Book a collection
What to donate
Research

The heart research you fund

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  • Research milestones
  • Mending Broken Hearts
  • Meet our researchers
  • Centres of research excellence
  • Our science image competition
  • Research policies
  • Researcher noticeboard
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  • Statistics

£2 million to keep hearts beating

Professor Kinya Otsu

Your donations have raised over £2 million for new Professor Kinya Otsu's research into stopping heart cells dying.

Life-saving heart research

Our research successes

Research

We invest in world-class research into heart disease. Find out how far we've come in 50 years, and how far we still have to go.

Read about our impact

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Community

Connect & share experiences

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  • About our online community
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  • Discussions
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  • How to get social with us
  • Our podcasts
  • Your stories
  • Share your story
In your area

Heart Town launch in Bromley

We're working with UK towns and cities to get communities heart healthy.

Find out about Heart Towns

Our online community

Our Online Community

Share experiences, stories, tips and ideas in our community.

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About BHF

Who we are & our mission

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  • Find the BHF near you
  • Our history
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Where we're at

50 years of heart health

Explore 50 years of the fight against heart disease, and find out where we're going in the future.

Explore our timeline

Where we are

Where we are

From shops to events, Heart Nurses to Professors, find something near you on our map.

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  • WHAT ON EARTH CAN I DO, IM SO FED UP WITH ALL THIS. 1,398 reads
  • Help us shape an NHS that works for heart patients 892 reads
  • A free recipe from the new BHF Everyday British recipe book - healthy and delicious! 532 reads
  • hole in the heart 511 reads
  • Friends are treating me different and I want to scream 380 reads
  • WHAT ON EARTH CAN I DO, IM SO FED UP WITH ALL THIS. 18 comments
  • hole in the heart 13 comments
  • Waiting times 6 comments
  • im new 4 comments
  • New here 4 comments

Recent Posts

Taking your meds ain't no laughing matter. Here's how you can take control of your heart health!
Let's talk about sex
Friends are treating me different and I want to scream
Help us shape an NHS that works for heart patients
Hi, I thought I would just introduce myself
Happy Easter
Telehealth for my Dad?
Starting a new relationship when you have a heart condition
You can now 'heart' posts you like on our community
Salt Awareness Week

Most loved posts

  • You can now 'heart' posts you like on our community (5)
  • Good addition Roberto - nice (5)
  • Taking your meds ain't no laughing matter. Here's how you can take control of your heart health! (4)
  • Starting a new relationship when you have a heart condition (4)
  • Hi, I thought I would just introduce myself (4)

Discussions

Search

Welcome to our discussions.

We cover lots of different topics like how to prevent heart disease, living with a heart condition or even about our upcoming events. Or you can just relax and have a chat about TV or the latest book you've read in the social (off topic) section.

So take a look around and see what you're interested in.

Topic Discussions Posts Last post
General discussions
Introductions
New to the community? Introduce yourself here.
259
1151 Just saying hi by patricia hughes 15 min 53 sec ago
The Social (off topic chat)
A place to chat and relax.
30
223 Tommy Cooper and BHF by agnes 5 hours 20 min ago
Feedback on the BHF
Do you think we could do something better? Let us know here.
7
71 BHF Travel Insurance by Rachel 15/05/2012 - 7:40pm
Community guidelines
Find out do's and don'ts of the BHF community and give us any feedback.
21
93 Friends are treating me ... by Angie 1 day 1 hour ago
BHF News
Latest news from the BHF
30
118 Taking your meds ain't no ... by agnes 3 min 50 sec ago
Heart health
Living with a heart condition
Share your stories and find out about how others are dealing with the day to day of living with a heart condition.
86
380 travel abroad by shaun 1 day 13 hours ago
Treatments
A place to discuss and ask questions about your treatments.
35
238 Waiting times by Roy England 17/05/2012 - 5:54pm
Tests
Got a test coming up and worried about it? Discuss different tests you are having.
5
32 Why another stress test? by Penelope Crane 16/05/2012 - 1:58pm
Conditions
There are many heart conditions, discuss yours or read about other people's experiences.
39
163 svt by patricia hughes 4 min 39 sec ago
Prevention
Talk about how you can keep your heart healthy.
13
78 Salt Awareness Week by Maureen BHF Helpline 16/05/2012 - 12:31pm
Symptoms
Talk about your symptoms and connect with other people in similar circumstances
23
101 What could be going on? by Penelope Crane 12/05/2012 - 5:51pm
Get involved
Cycling
Here's the place to talk about all things cycling, including our legendary London to Brighton Bike Ride
4
24 London to Brighton Bike Ride 2012 by willarmstrong8 15/05/2012 - 4:29pm
Fundraising
Holding a fundraising event or want to talk about fundraising for us? This is the discussion for you!
11
36 Climbing mount Everest next ... by Tina-marie Brum 07/05/2012 - 11:52pm
Running
From jogs around the park to marathons, you can talk about taking part in running events here.
8
28 Help please: 5k Run - New to ... by Ellen BHF Helpline 03/05/2012 - 1:05pm
Events
Talk about the event you are taking part in for us, get tips and meet others.
9
99 London to Southampton ride by Martin George 01/09/2011 - 9:09pm
Volunteering
Are you a volunteer for us or want to be? Talk about volunteering here.
4
9 Does Volunteering From The ... by Roberto Community Manager 15/08/2011 - 9:12am
Campaigning
Share your campaigning stories and chat about our latest lobbying and campaigns.
11
35 Health at work! by Loren Crowley 11 hours 10 min ago
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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