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2 October 2013

PRESS RELEASE  (Please do not issue before 7^th October)

Teignmouth organisation gets short-listed for award

‘Heartbeat’ is a local organisation that provides defibrillators in the community.  A defibrillator, or defib’, is a piece of equipment that can restart someone’s heart if it has stopped beating. Community defibs are on hand 24 hours a day and are safe and easy to use.  One does not have to have any medical training to use one.

 

‘Heartbeat’ has been short-listed for a Lloyds Bank Community Fund 2013 award in Teignbridge and could win £3,000 – enough to purchase another defib’ machine complete with secure casing.  The Lloyds Bank Community Fund is helping local people across England and Wales to have a positive impact at the heart of their communities by giving grants to over 1,300 local good causes in villages, towns and cities.

 

There are four local good causes in each community and will all receive an award.  Two local causes from each community will receive £3,000, with the other two receiving £300 each.

 

However, ‘Heartbeat’ can only win this award if enough people vote for them.  You can find out more about the Community Fund and Heartbeat, and cast your vote, by visiting the Lloyds Bank Community Fund website at: www.lloydsbank.com/communityfund or pop into any Lloyds bank in Teignbridge, ask for a voting token and pop it in the Heartbeat slot. You can also vote by texting VOTE MDHA to 61119 (std msg rate). Voting ends on November 1^st 2013.

‘Heartbeat’ spokesperson Shirley Brokenshaw says ‘Please vote for us so we can purchase another defibrillator quickly.  Our next one will be installed outside the Carlton Theatre in Teignmouth available for both residents and visitors.  These defib’s could save your life.  A big thank you to all our supporters who have enabled us to purchase a defib’ to go in the Eastcliffe area of Teignmouth.  Eventually we hope to have these community defibs all over Teignmouth, and beyond’

 

You can contact Shirley on email at shirley.toadhall@tiscali.co.uk or by ringing 07941 585601.

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Notes to editors

 About Lloyds Bank

 Lloyds is part of Lloyds Banking Group, the largest financial services investor in UK communities. The Group invested £85m in its communities during 2012. The Group plays a part in the lives of nearly everyone in the UK, as a supplier of financial services and a major employer. The Group looks after the financial needs of over 30 million retail and business customers and believes that through its branches and businesses, it has the

potential to reach every family and community in the UK and through its communities and responsible business programmes it can do more to help Britain prosper.

 

About Heartbeat

 Heartbeat was launched in Teignmouth in 2012. Its aims are

·         To provide public access defibrillators at strategic positions within the community.

·         To ensure that defib sites are clearly signed and publicised.

·         To increase awareness, particularly in schools, of what action to take in cases of sudden cardiac arrest.

So far Heartbeat has raised, through book sales, raffles, collections and donations, enough money to install the first public access defibrillator, together with its weatherproof casing, at the Eastcliffe end of the Teignmouth sea front. Fund raising for further units continues.

 

For further information, please contact:

Heartbeat: Shirley Brokenshaw shirley.toadhall@tiscali.co.uk / 07941 585601.

 Lloyds Bank: Ross Watson, Four Communications

communityfund@fourcommunications.com/ 020 3697 43