North East Hearts with Goals are a charity based in the North East. Awarded the Queens Award for voluntary service equivalent to MBE in June 2020.
Sudden Cardiac Arrest is the UK's biggest killer.
100,000 people per year. 15 yoUNG PEOPLE a week.
We place lifesaving defibrillators into public places such as schools, colleges and sports clubs. We aim to provide you with regular updates about defibrillator placements and fundraising events.
Kelly Best, Franco Baresi, Christine Stephenson.
North East Hearts with Goals was started by sisters in law Christine Stephenson & Kelly Best in 2013 for both personal and common sense reasons.
Kelly's husband and Christine's brother Neil died suddenly in 2003 at the age of 32. 10 years later Kelly's son was diagnosed with ARVC, a potentially fatal heart condition that could put him at risk of cardiac arrest. In 2019 Kelly’s other Son and Father in Law were diagnosed with the same condition.
After researching the best way to help and be pro-active it was decided to start placing lifesaving defibrillators into the local schools with a target of 5, safe to say that target was exceeded.
The charity has placed over nearly 600 defibrillators around the North East and arranged training to use them. There are thousands more placements to make.
Please look around the site, see what a defibrillator is, learn where your closest defibrillator is from our map, be inspired by some of our fundraisers and please donate where you can.
Thankyou x