Please go extra lengths for heart research

Dear Editor, Forget dodging tankers and battling currents, this year Heart Research UK are asking you to take on their ‘Swim the Channel Challenge’, and conquer the English Channel in your local baths to raise money for their pioneering medical research into the prevention, treatment and cure of heart disease.

Follow in the footsteps of David Walliams and take on the English Channel without a single mouthful of sea water for Heart Research UK, all from the comfort of your local pool.

Swim as an individual or a team, get friends, family and colleagues to sponsor you and complete 22 miles over 12 weeks, while improving your fitness and raising money.

This is the perfect challenge to take on if you don’t have much time. It can be done whenever and wherever suits and is open to children and adults alike.

In the last 10 years, Heart Research UK has funded over £10.2 min medical research in hospitals and universities across the UK, as well as £2.2 mon innovative community-based lifestyle projects to improve the heart health of the nation.

Heart Research UK are taking on heart disease, the nation’s single biggest killer, and they need your help.

Sign up online at www/ heartresearch.org.uk/ swim or by calling 0113 234 7474 and you’ll be fully supported and sent a fundraising pack including a swim diary to track your lengths, sponsorship forms, tips and posters to promote your challenge. Daniel Raymond, Heart Research UK