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Join us on our inaugural Clock2Rock bike ride and cycle from London to Gibraltar for the adventure of a lifetime.
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A taste of Britain
Our Everyday British recipe book gives a healthy twist to those traditional British meals
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The heart research you fund
£2 million to keep hearts beating
Your donations have raised over £2 million for new Professor Kinya Otsu's research into stopping heart cells dying.
Life-saving heart 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.
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Only 10 per cent of people who have cardiac arrests outside hospital survive. Mike is one of the lucky ones. When he collapsed at his gym, staff quickly performed CPR.Read Mike's story.
30,000 people have a cardiac arrest outside of hospital each year. Learn more about Hands-only CPR. Find a Heartstart CPR training course near you.
Practice Hands-only CPR with the BHF PocketCPR app. Download the Android or iPhone app now.
Click the play icon to listen to Vinnie's answers.
Find out about our Hands-only CPR campaign
Show your support by tweeting #hardandfast
Download Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees. Fairshare Music will make a donation to us for every download.
Think you should have learnt emergency life-saving skills at school? Sign our petition to get it taught in classrooms.
Thanks to you the campaign is a huge success. We’ve had more than a million YouTube views of Vinnie’s film and caught the attention of the world’s media.
We can only do our life-saving work with your help. Donate today and help raise vital funds.
