Schools campaign

We all know the importance of being physically active to improve our overall health but many children and young people in Scotland aren’t achieving the recommended target of 60 minutes of activity each day.

Encouraging children to be as active as possible can help maintain a healthy weight, increase energy levels and reduce their risk of developing heart and circulatory disease in the future.

British Heart Foundation (BHF) Scotland is offering all schools across the nation a chance to win a once-in-alifetime interactive workshop with a BHF Scotland-funded researcher to teach pupils about the importance of keeping their heart healthy.

To enter all schools need to do is sign up to one of BHF Scotland’s schools fundraisers, Jump Rope for Heart or Ultimate Dodgeball, before February 28 by visiting www.bhf.org.uk/ schools.

Our fundraisers are easy to organise and come with lesson plans and enough skipping ropes and dodgeballs for a successful event.

Not only will it raise money for BHF Scotland’s life-saving research into the fight against heart disease but schools get to keep 20 per cent of the money raised to buy new equipment.

BHF Scotland is currently funding 124 research grants to the value of over £60 million to help end the devastation of heart disease.

With schools’ help we will be able to fund even more ground-breaking research to help prevent, treat and one day cure these conditions.