Over the next year, Livingston Designer Outlet will be supporting British Heart Foundation (BHF) by raising funds and awareness of heart and circulatory disease.

The money raised will help BHF fund vital research into heart and circulatory diseases like heart attacks, stroke and vascular dementia, and the risk factors that can cause them, such as diabetes and high blood pressure.

Since forming in 1961, the charity has funded research that has contributed to lifesaving breakthroughs such as heart transplants, pacemakers, portable defibrillators, and valve replacements.

To support the cause some of the LDO team are participating in this years Edinburgh Kiltwalk to help raise vital funds.

Heart attacks that strike without warning, strokes that shatter futures, newborn babies born with broken hearts. These are just some of the cruelties of cardiovascular disease. 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 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.

We welcome and appreciate all donations to help us realise British Heart Foundation’s vision.