28/02/2026
❤️Heart Month
February may be a short month in terms of days. It's always a busy one with the amount we have packed in!
1 Thanks to the team at HeartHero, Inc. Inc , the world's first ⚡️EVER ⚡️ Elliot defibrillator installed and emergency ready right here in Cheltenham Gloucestershire UK - here is how to change the pads with one hand and film with the other in a car!
🛰1A It's now registered and beeping a signal every 24 hours with status checks and a GPS tracker.
📲The first defib in the world to have its own app - fully operational and so easy to use as demo-ed here
3 Here's our impact
✨️54 Defibs accessed 232 times over the last 12 months
Including all of these in Feb (and some more than once) :
CCP Charity
The Family Grill
The Ridge Pub
The Hatherley Pub
Masjid el Noor Mosque
Evans Jones / Tidal Training Ltd HQ
Stay Lets
Badham Pharmacy Charlton Kings
Roxy Lanes
The Meadow Cafe
Addis Road CBH
Barton Rd CBH
Montpellier Toilets CBC
🪄4 All of our TheCircuit checks are up-to-date, including our very own Marathon Man Greg Godfrey-Williams' 🏃♂️
immense 26,000 steps checking 26 defibs earlier this week
We are definitely Race Ready ! 🏇
🆘️5 Volunteers Please!
To learn more and get involved, we are looking for volunteers to help us do monthly routine deficit checks.
It's literally a 2 minute job , and it's so important.
Please get in touch below or at the office 01242-371-999 everybody's welcome, anybody can do it - and that's your volunteering bit done! ✅️
♾️6 Please vote for Public Hearts Defib Campaign in BBC Radio Gloucestershire Make A Difference Awards a differencce Community Award Category