I'm raising money for the British Heart Foundation. A charity important to me, as someone who has someone close to me with heart disease.

Cardiovascular disease causes a quarter of all deaths in the UK, that’s more than 170,000 deaths each year – an average of 480 deaths each day or one every three minutes in the UK.

There are more than 7.6 million people living with a cardiovascular disease in the UK: over 4 million men and over 3.6 million women.

Coronary heart disease (also known as ischaemic heart disease) is the most commonly diagnosed type of heart disease. It is the most common cause of heart attack and is the single biggest killer of both and men and women worldwide. It's also the single biggest premature killer (before the age of 75) in the UK.

In the UK there are around 100,000 hospital admissions each year due to heart attacks: that's one every five minutes.

Around 1.4 million people alive in the UK today have survived a heart attack.

Strokes cause around 34,000 deaths in the UK each year and are the biggest cause of severe disability in the UK.

People with a family history of coronary heart disease are much more likely to develop vascular dementia.

Each day an average of 13 babies are diagnosed with a congenital heart defect in the UK. There are many more diagnoses later in life.

There are more than 40,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the UK each year, with a survival rate of less than 1 in 10.