Pumping Marvellous

UK Heart Failure Day Friday 11th May 2012

Pumping Marvellous is promoting UK Heart Failure Day which this year lands on Friday 11th May 2012. Last year Pumping Marvellous promoted the day by working with Asda to inform their customers and won tickets to the British Society for Heart Failure conference at the Queen Elizabeth 2nd Conference Centre in London last year. We aim to better our offering this year and we are not only in Asda in the East Lancashire area but are also promoting awareness of Heart Failure all week at the Royal Blackburn Hospital with a bright and attractive stand. Through our websites and social media we will also be pushing the word out onto the streets everyday.

Curry Pots and the Preston Health Mela…

Netballathon – Marathon netball game for 6hrs by the Heart Stars

The Heart Stars netball team played a marathon 6hrs of netball at the Spirit of Sport pitches in Burnley, Lancashire. They played 6 other teams starting at 10.00am and finishing at 4pm. Currently as of writing this post £2160 was raised for the charity Pumping Marvellous and we think this will top £2500. Here are some of the pictures.

Hearts Stars Netball Team

Hearts Stars Netball Team

Hearts Stars Netball Team

Ready steady action at the Netballathon

Hearts Stars Netball Team

1 week to go to Heart Stars Netballathon

British Red Cross First Aid Training

Pumping Marvellous has teamed up with the British Red Cross to train Heart Failure patients and their Carers on basic First Aid techniques that are pertinent to their conditions. Below you will see Jason who is the Pumping Marvellous Tai Chi instructor refreshing his First Aid Training and a Heart Failure patient learning CPR.

Giving CPR

CPR and Defib training

If you know what a Bounty Pack is then visualise this as a concept if you don’t put Bounty Pack into Google and you will find out about it. Pumping Marvellous has developed a Heart Failure Toolkit which will help Heart Failure patients along with their carers and families to manage this long term condition.  It is a lifelong toolkit for self-management.

We would like to have your thoughts and have therefore put the project out for consultation. We would like you to tell us what you think should go into this toolkit, what you would expect to see in this toolkit if you were a newly diagnosed patient, a carer or member of the family.

All feedback and recommendations are well received and hopefully we can pull as comprehensive a pack together and make a real difference to patients and the way they manage their Heart Failure in the community.

1,000,000 people in the UK suffer from Heart Failure and over 6,000,000 in the US. You may know one and if you do give some thought to some feedback that could make a real difference.

Contact us via a Facebook post  or email hearts@pumpingmarvellous.org or friend us on twitter @pumpinghearts and send us a DM.

Thanks for considering this, the Trustees.

Heart Stars in the Press

Mirrens story is going out in the Lancashire Evening Post on Saturday – she said she didn’t want to see a photographer today as she needed to get her hair done!!!! so she has agreed tomorrow for the photos and in the press Saturday!!!! be on the website as well

Visit Heart Stars

The Pumping Marvellous treatment…

A fitting crescendo to Heart Month

Pumping Marvellous are very focused around children and young people getting the right education on healthy lifestyles and delivering in a way they enjoy and learn but also having big fun doing it. That’s why we have just added a new “string to our bow” for the charity called Heart Stars, this is still in development but will be ready to launch very soon headed up by a very special young lady Mirren Terry. Coming to your screens as promised!

In our commitment to ensuring children and young people start their lives with the best possible education we have teamed up with on Wednesday 29th February 2012 the East Lancashire Hospital Trusts Heart Failure Nursing Team under the direction of Angela Graves and the Blackburn with Darwen Health Teams under the direction of Mark Campbell to have a day of fun filled education with the children of the Infants and Juniors of The Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Blackburn. We will be educating the children about the Heart and its function, exercise and it’s impact on the heart and the importance of healthy food.

Not only will the children be actively involved all day they will also have some homework pre the event which will include the infants trying to name 10 correct fruit and vegeatable which they will learn before their fun filled day and the juniors answering a questionnaire on how much they know about the heart and the affects of nutrition and exercise. Whilst answering the questions both the infants and juniors will gather sponsorships which will be based on how many they can get correct by the 29th February 2012.
Mums or Dads can also win a full week of juice detox from Soulmatefood one of our corporate sponsors.

Collections on the day will go to the “Heart of Blackburn” 3D scanner appeal. Monies collected through the sponsorship forms will go to your local Heart Failure Chairty Pumping Marvellous.