Heartbeat

About Heartbeat

Heartbeat exists to ensure that people being treated at the Wessex Cardiac Centre are provided with the best possible care and support. Cardiac treatment is often a very long and complicated journey, affecting many people in separate ways; our work over the years has allowed them to ensure that everybody, from patients to friends and relatives will be supported every step of the way.

Since 1992, Heartbeat has put in place crucial improvements in the Wessex Cardiac Centre, that wouldn’t otherwise have happened; the same improvements that patients, their relatives, doctors, nurses and many others, consistently tell them make a real difference. Help them make a difference.

• They support up to 23 families a day.
• They fund many pioneering projects on the Wessex Cardiac Unit.
• They provide grants for equipment, education and medical research.

From your very first game, you will be helping Heartbeat raise vital funds that will go back into the community. Some examples of what your contribution could help pay for:

• £10 would provide toiletries for relatives who use Heartbeat House in an emergency.
• £50 would pay towards Explain My Procedure informative videos.
• £100 would go towards funding 2 complex cardiac simulators to train doctors in the complex procedures, including performing angiograms and putting in stents and pacemakers.

Registered Charity Number: 1116510
www.heartbeat.co.uk

How To Play The Lottery

Each entry to the draw costs £1. Our draws are run every week of the year, usually on a Friday. You can either set up a membership to provide your chosen cause with a regular and reliable income, every week of the year, or you can play as and when you want to, whatever suits you best!

Lottery fundraising is a really easy and fun way to provide good causes with an income that they can plan for the future with. You need to be 18 or over and living in Great Britain to take part.
Last year (April 2022-March 2023):

• Lottery Income that went towards charitable causes = £573,922.20 (38.9%)
• Lottery income that went on expenses = £741,499.80 (50.3%)
• Lottery income that went on prizes = £132,500.00 (10.8%)

What are my chances of winning?

Any prize = 1 in 204 tickets entered into the draw will win a prize.

These figures are estimated using current plays and figures and can vary slightly from each week. These are an approximate and can be updated at any time.

In total, there were an average 27,819 weekly plays across our charity partners, with 6,734 prizes being given away over the year.

Please call us if you would rather set your lottery membership up over the phone 0300 303 4500.

How Do I Win?

When you join, we will allocate you with a lottery play number. Our draws are randomly drawn each Friday (with exception when this is a Bank Holiday, when it will take place the working day prior). You don’t need to check the results every week, although you can if you want to. If you win, we will contact you to let you know. If we have your email, your prize winnings will automatically go into your make a smile lottery account; where you can then request a withdrawal, after which monies are then transferred into your bank account, or if you don’t have an email with us, a letter and cheque will be sent via post (please make sure that we have your up to date address).