The Cardiovascular Research Trust is a healthy heart charity with the aim of informing and educating health professionals, policy makers and the public about advances in understanding effective ways to prevent and treat serious disorders of the heart and the circulation. The Trust has a particular interest in effective healthy heart promotion in the young.
The Trust was founded in 1996.
Activities of our healthy heart charity include:
– Healthy Heart Symposia – educational events on how diet, exercise and other aspects of lifestyle can prevent and reduce severity of diseases of the heart and circulation
– Healthy Heart Awards for schools
– publications aimed at increasing awareness of how to keep the heart healthy
– Healthy Heart Poetry in association with the Hippocrates Initiative