Heart Support - Australia

Donating to Heart Support Australia

Heart Support Australia Limited has been operating for 20 years, providing free of charge services to communities all over Australia including;

Ø Support Information and Counselling to those persons contemplating or recovering from cardiac surgery or who suffer from heart disease or heart defects.

Ø Support to the spouses, carers and families of such persons

Ø Assisting with the provision of local and national rehabilitation and self management programs

Ø Disseminating information and educating such cardiac patients

Ø Providing consultative arrangements for consumer input for Government and non Government policy, Councils, Advisory Panels and Forums

Ø Establishing branches, regions and state or territory executives in Australian States , Territories and Protectorates

Ø Raising funds in support of the company and to make available funds for cardiothoracic surgical units, coronary care units and cardiac research at branch level.

As the incidents of heart disease increases, the necessity for an organisation such as Heart Support Australia also increases. We require more resources which means we require more funds.

For the first time in twenty years, we are actively seeking the assistance of all Australians to help us with our organisation.

While research into heart disease continues and many funds are utilized to assist in this research, people all around the country continue to experience heart events and this is where Heart Support Australia comes in. We are there for you because we have been there ourselves. We are there for you now and into the future, to assist the more than 2 million Australians who suffer from the effects of heart disease.

If you would like to make a donation to assist us, please print the attached form and send your donation to HEART SUPPORT AUSTRALIA LIMITED, Unit 7B, 52 Wollongong Street , Fyshwick, ACT 2609.

Your donation will go towards the following projects and activities.

· Developing more Walking Programs throughout Australia

· Training Heart Health Support Workers in counselling skills to enable them to provide accurate information, encouragement and support to cardiac patients

· Self Management training to assist in reducing the risk of further heart events.

· Hospital visitations to provide further information to heart patients and their carers and families.

· Development, production and distribution of self care programs for distribution to Cardiac Rehabilitation programs and to rural and remote communities.

· Exercise classes

· Providing advanced cardiac support to rural and remote communities