British Heart Foundation: Beating Heartbreak Together

To celebrate British Heart Foundation’s 60th birthday, Leisure Lakes Bikes is pledging their support to raise over £25,000 within the next year. Coinciding with our own 40th Anniversary, we want to celebrate with a fundraising campaign & combined 100 Years Charity Raffle, with 100 prizes over a value of £100 each!

As a way of reaching that overall goal our staff at the Preston Hub store have decided to do a Charity ride from Preston all the way up to our newest store to the group, Ulverston in the Lake District. The 75 mile bike ride will take place on Sunday 4th September.

The staff here are going to cycle on their own road bikes and have opened the ride up for customers or anyone who would like to get involved to buy a ticket for a £10 donation to the British Heart Foundation

We thought this would be a great way to get all of our customers and friends involved no matter their experience or ability! Any donations and support would be hugely appreciated :)

Since the BHF was established the annual number of deaths from heart and circulatory diseases in the UK has fallen by around a half.

In the 1960s more than 7 out of 10 heart attacks in the UK were fatal. Today, at least 7 out of 10 people will survive.

The BHF is the largest independent funder of heart and circulatory disease treatment in the UK.

Heart and circulatory diseases cause around a quarter of all deaths in the UK, that’s more than 160,000 deaths each year – an average of 460 deaths each day or one every three minutes in the UK.

There are around 7.6 million people living with a heart or circulatory disease in the UK: 4 million men and 3.6 million women.

Some of us are unfortunate enough to know someone who has suffered from a heart related illness or even lost their life. Through fundraising, promoting a healthy lifestyle and raising awareness of the symptoms of heart related illnesses; we can do our part to help the British Heart Foundation beat the heartbreak caused by these illnesses forever.