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BHF CEO Simon Gillespie with FUW president Glyn Roberts[/caption]
The Farmers’ Union of Wales has officially revealed the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Cymru as its new charitable cause for the next two years.
Making the announcement on the Tuesday of the Eisteddfod (August 4), FUW president Glyn Roberts, said: “I am pleased to announce that we have chosen the British Heart Foundation Cymru as our next charitable cause, following nominations by our staff and friends of the union.
“BHF are the nation's heart charity and the largest independent funder of cardiovascular research. Coronary heart disease is the UK's single biggest killer and their pioneering research has helped to transform the lives of people living with heart and circulatory conditions and their work has been central to the discoveries of vital treatments that are helping to change the face of the UK's fight against heart disease.
“I am sure that as a union we can top our last fundraising total of £50,000, which we have recently presented to children’s hospices Ty Hafan and Ty Gobaith and I look forward to working with the charity.”
BHF were founded in 1961 by a group of medical professionals wanting to fund extra research into the causes, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of heart and circulatory disease and after half a century of extraordinary scientific and societal progress they have helped to transform the landscape of heart disease.
BHF Cymru head of community fundraising Sion Edwards said: “ We are delighted that BHF Cymru will be the Farmers’ Union of Wales charity partner for the next two years and are joining the fight, with us, against heart disease – Wales’s biggest killer.
“Funds raised by the Farmers’ Union of Wales will help power our world-class research programme, which has contributed to some of the most amazing advances in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease but the fight against heart disease is far from over.”