From the Estates team:

This year, the British Heart Foundation (BHF) is celebrating 60 years of life saving research!

Since 2012 University of Kent students and staff have generated 15,636 bags of donations through the donation points on campus. That’s £218,904* raised to help support help life-saving research, driving breakthroughs for heart patients all across the UK.

These donations have allowed the BHF to be a part of breakthroughs like heart transplants and pacemakers, stents and clot busting drugs and their goals for the decades ahead are more ambitious than ever. Cures for inherited heart diseases, radically improved treatment for stroke, ways to stop vascular dementia in its tracks, and of course recovering from the brutal blow that is the Covid-19 pandemic.

Thank you and keep donating!

We would like to say a huge thank you to our staff and student who have donated books, bags, shoes, clothes, homeware and much more through our BHF donation points. Without you, we wouldn’t have been able to make such an impact.

Please continue to donate items that you don’t need any more through our donations points, which you can find on our map of locations.

For any waste, recycling or reuse guidance please look at our Estates website, follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter and you can always email us on estatesfmcoordinator@kent.ac.uk.

*based on average value of £14/bag