The British Heart Foundation NI is teaching life saving skills at the Balmoral Show, where you can also find out more about the work of the BHFNI and how you can support it.
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00:00So, can you tell me a bit about what you have here at the show this year?
00:02So, as you know, the British Heart Foundation is fundamentally a research charity, so we're
00:08here presenting to people a range of our activities related to all that, and fundamental of course
00:14to it is raising money.
00:16So, as you can see, we're selling some stock, we have seven shops across Northern Ireland
00:21and we're also encouraging people to think about bringing stock, that is clothes and
00:27stuff that's in their wardrobe, so just bring it to those shops across Northern Ireland.
00:32And we're also asking people to think about, could you volunteer for British Heart Foundation
00:37in some way or another, in our shops or potentially fundraising for us in your community?
00:44Anybody that's interested in doing that Virgil, how do they get in touch if they would like
00:48to volunteer?
00:49Yeah, there's no difficulty, just go onto our website bhfni, you'll find contact numbers
00:54for our staff in Northern Ireland and our fundraising manager Orla will be more than
01:00happy to hear from you.
01:03We also have a unique tool here that we're emphasising at the Balmoral Show and it's
01:11called Reviver.
01:12You'll be aware of the story of that guy that dropped at the Belfast Marathon and fortunately
01:20a defib was brought to him and people were able to do CPR on him and he has survived
01:29and that is great news.
01:33But the more people that know how to do the interventions that happened around that incident,
01:39the better and that's what we're emphasising today.
01:41We have a tool that can teach people in 15 minutes the nature of an emergency call, how
01:47to do CPR and how to work a defibrillator.
01:50We provide people with a unique QR code that can download the app and learn how to do CPR
01:58and give themselves the confidence to intervene if an incident occurred.
02:04And to back all that up, on Saturday at this event we're doing our first public training
02:09exercise with visitors to the show where we'll teach them along with the UFU President and
02:15other high profile people just how to do CPR using that tool.
02:19And what time is that going to be at on Saturday and where should visitors go?
02:23The event is in the Sheep Shearing Pavilion, there won't be any sheep there at that time
02:29and it'll be at 4pm on Saturday and we just encourage people to come along.
02:34It'll be a great event and emphasise the fact that in the event of a really tragic potential
02:42incident you can have the power to intervene and save a life.
02:48And as well people can donate to the charity at the show, there's buckets here.
02:53None of what we do is possible without the support and finance from you, the public.
03:01We have buckets here, we have stock here in terms of selling product but yes, if you've
03:08got funds and you support our mission, as many, many people do, then please donate to
03:16British Heart Foundation here at Balmoral Show.
03:18Thank you to the Health Minister who has been very, very supportive of us in the past.
03:23He knows the profile of heart disease in Northern Ireland, 225,000 people here suffer from heart
03:32and circulatory disease and we're emphasising that in a little game that you can participate
03:39in here at the Balmoral Show and enter a leader board to see how much information you know
03:45about the extent of heart and circulatory disease here.