Heart attacks that strike without warning, strokes that shatter futures, newborn babies born with broken hearts. These are just some of the cruelties of heart and circulatory diseases. And the brutal reality is, there is so much more for science to discover before we can beat the world's biggest killers.

That's why the British Heart Foundation exists. Funding research is how we change the game. And we all have a role to play. The tools we have at our disposal today - from heart transplants and pacemakers to stents and portable defibrillators - are all down to research.

Research made possible by people like you, supporting people like us.

Since our creation in 1961, we have achieved so much, including helping to halve the number of people dying from heart and circulatory diseases in the UK each year. But there is still so much more to be done. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your support as part of this partnership.