Khairi Abu Bakar and Paul Burke
Science company employees from Huddersfield got stuck into a ‘hearty’ bake sale in aid of a charity helping mark National Heart Month last month (February).
Employees from all departments at science company Lubrizol’s Huddersfield – from engineering to site logistics – baked cute heart-shaped goodies for sale in aid of St John Ambulance.
This was the first fundraising day that staff at the science plant on Leeds Road had undertaken for the charity, which Lubrizol has adopted across all its UK sites for two years.
Volunteers from the charity have been into Lubrizol to deliver CPR sessions, providing life-saving skills for people who have suffered a cardiac arrest.
Sinead Quinn, toll manufacturing and intracompany planner at Lubrizol, said: “We chose a heart theme for our bake sale in line with our chosen charity, St John Ambulance, which has been brilliant in conducting CPR sessions on-site. It was great to see all departments give a bit back by getting their aprons on for the bake sale. Everything raised has gone to St John Ambulance so we’re really pleased. We’re planning more events to raise money for this charity along with others we support at Lubrizol Huddersfield.”
National Heart Month is held each February – coinciding with Valentine’s Day – to raise awareness of heart health and potentially fatal cardiovascular diseases.
Across the UK, more than 30,000 cardiac arrests take place outside of a hospital setting annually. But less than one in ten people survive, often because those around them lack the skills or confidence to perform CPR, or access to a defibrillator.
When someone is in cardiac arrest their heart has stopped beating, and every minute without CPR or defibrillation reduces the chances of survival by up to 10 per cent, while early CPR and defibrillation can more than double survival rates.
Other members of Lubrizol staff to have raised money for St John Ambulance include Claire and Tim Hollingshurst, who walked 55 miles in a 24-hour period and raised nearly £2,000.
