Defibshop Helps Hand on Heart Support Families

defibshop's CEO, David Howarth, is also the founder of the children's charity, Hand On Heart who are dedicated to keeping children safe and preventing the deaths of 12 young people who sadly die every week due to sudden cardiac arrest.

Hand on Heart work tirelessly to raise funds and place defibrillators in schools and communities whilst also offering defibrillator and basic life-support training to staff and student alike. The charity is also working on their latest initiative to broaden their reach: Defibs on Loan.

Defibs on Loan

This initiative from Hand on Heart has been designed to help families with young children who are poorly or have serious heart issues and are unable to leave hospital unless they have their very own defibrillator. Hand on Heart kindly steps in at this point and offers a defibrillator on loan until the funds are in place to provide the child with a permanent solution.

With the demand significantly increasing for the Defibs on Loan packages, defibshop have stepped in and has offered Hand on Heart 8 defibrillators to help with the demand the charity is facing.

Hand on Heart's Charity Co-ordinator, Lesley Appleton comments: "receiving this added support from defibshop means so much to us. In times when families are struggling to accept the news that a young family member has a heart issue is difficult enough, as a charity; being able to offer them some respite of the worries on having a defibrillator at home means a great deal to Hand on Heart. We are grateful to have the continuing support from one of our founding partners and the defibrillators from defibshop will mean so much and on behalf of future families we will be able to help - we can’t thank them enough."

defibshop Managing Director, Lyndsey Hope also comments: "The work Hand on Heart do is hugely supported by the business and we’re incredibly honoured to be able to help with easing a family’s struggle when caring for their children. The awareness of defibrillators and cardiac arrest in the young is on the rise and we fully support the work HOH do to continue this. As a founding partner of the Hand on Heart charity, we hope to work more closely together going forward to support more families in need."

More Information

Now the charity is supported with the additional 8 life-saving devices from defibshop, they're now looking for more families to help. If you would like to learn more about Hand on Heart's initiative, please get in touch with the team on 0845 071 0822, or alternatively, head on over to their website, www.handonheart.org.

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