JUMP ROPE
FOR HEART
Raise money for our life-saving research
and your group.
Get over £30 worth of skipping ropes.
A fun event for you and your children that can
be held anytime during the year.
Have fun, get active
and save lives
Jump Rope For Heart (JRFH) is the British Heart
Foundation’s (BHF) skipping challenge, encouraging
children and young people to take part in physical
activity that is fun, rewarding and heart healthy. It’s
popular and helps raise money for youth groups and
our fight for every heartbeat.
Once registered, group leaders receive a skipping kit
(containing equipment worth over £30) to enable
them to introduce and develop skipping to children in
their group. Last year, tens of thousands of children
took part in this popular event.
What’s involved?
Once children have mastered the basic
skipping skills, a Jump Off (sponsored
skip) is held. Children can be sponsored
for the amount of time they skip or for
taking part in various challenges. We
provide lots of ideas and helpful tips in
our Jump Off manual, but the format of
the day is up to the group.
Why skipping is a great
activity for children
is a popular way for children
• Skipping
to have fun while doing some of their
60 minutes of physical activity a day.
Skipping is inexpensive, requires
little space or time and provides
opportunities to be creative and to
learn new techniques.
Skipping can challenge the most able
children, yet is simple enough for
everyone to achieve.
Skipping is totally flexible – children
of all abilities can skip on
their own, with a partner or as a
group. You can choose to
involve just a few children or the
entire group – group leaders
and parents included!
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The £30
organiser’s kit
Youth groups that register for
JRFH receive a organiser’s kit
worth over £30. The organiser’s
kit contains everything you need
in order to organise a successful
Jump Off event:
11 brightly coloured skipping
ropes (more skipping ropes can
be purchased)
Jump Off manual (a step-bystep guide on how to hold a
successful event)
skipping skills activity cards
promotional posters
sponsor forms.
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When do you hold
the Jump Off?
It can be held anytime during the year.
Some groups choose to hold their
event on a sport or healthy living day or
during the spring or summer, so it can
be held outside.
Heart disease and children
Heart disease touches us all. It is
indiscriminate, affecting young and
old alike.
in every 180 babies born has a
• One
heart defect.
30,000 teenagers in the UK are
• About
currently living with heart conditions.
one in three children are
• About
overweight or obese.
Everyone wins with JRFH
Your children win
Kids of all ages and abilities love
skipping. It’s great fun and can
contribute to their recommended one
hour a day of physical activity.
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You win
The event is simple to organise and
we provide you with £30 worth of great
resources to help you create a fun and
successful event for your group.
Your group wins
It gets to keep 20% of the money
raised to support its activities.
Your community wins
With your group’s support, we can
drive the fight forward by doing more
research, making more discoveries and
offering information, support and care
to heart patients and their families.
Jump to it!
Use form on the back page or visit
bhf.org.uk/register to register for
this great event.
Jump Rope For Heart registration form
We hope you’re keen to give this fun event a go. We’re sure you and your children will love it and you’ll still be skipping long
after your event is over. Complete the form below and we’ll send you everything you need to run a successful event. You can also
register online at bhf.org.uk/register. If you have any questions, you can call us on 0300 330 3322 or email [email protected]
If your group is not already registered to hold another British
Heart Foundation event and it has either a UK or BFPO address,
it can register for this event.
Daytime telephone no.*
Full name of youth group*
Email address*
agrees to organise a sponsored skip on behalf of the British Heart
Foundation.
How many sponsor forms should we enclose in your skipping kit?*
(you need to allow at least four weeks to organise your event, so your
children can practice their skipping and raise funds).
Type of youth group*
Brownie/Guide
Youth Club
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q
Cub/Scout
Other
q
q
Cadet
q
Brigade
q
Please specify
What combination of skipping rope lengths would you like to receive?*
Tick one box only
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7, 8 & 9 feet length long ropes q
9 & 10 feet length long ropes q
7 & 8 feet length long ropes
q
8, 9 & 10 feet length long ropes q
No ropes required
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8 & 9 feet length long ropes
Length of rope Skipper’s height
7 feet (213 cm) 8 feet (244 cm) 9 feet (274 cm) 10 feet (305 cm) up to 4 feet 10 inches (up to 147 cm)
4 feet 11 inches to 5 feet 4 inches (150 to 163 cm)
5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 11 inches (165 to 180 cm)
6 feet and over (183 cm)
25
q 50 q Other quantity (please specify)
How did you hear about Jump Rope For Heart?*
q BHF website q BHF mail shot
q Recommended q Past participant
q Social media
q Other (please specify)
q BHF kids’ & schools’ catalogue
q BHF email
q Local BHF representative
q Magazine/newspaper article
q Magazine/newspaper advert/insert
Conditions of registration
We provide the Jump Rope For Heart resources on the understanding that:
• Your group will hold a sponsored event during the 2014/15 school year or the
following school year if your event month falls into that year.
• If you decide not to hold a fundraising event and do not return the resources
unused, your group will reimburse the British Heart Foundation for the £30
cost of the organiser’s kit. This is not an offer for sale of the equipment as an
alternative to holding an event.
• You have obtained the agreement of your group leader to take part in this event.
I have read and agree to the above conditions of registration
Signature of the person opposite*
Please send the skipping kit to*
(must be the contact details of a member of staff at the above youth
group. The address given needs be one that a parcel can be delivered to):
Date*
Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms/Other*
Please make sure you have completed all the sections marked
with a * symbol, as we will not be able to send you your
organiser’s kit until we have received all this information.
First name*
Surname*
Job title/Position*
Address*
Town*
County*
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Please return this form by post to:
Jump Rope For Heart, British Heart Foundation, Lyndon Place,
2096 Coventry Road, Birmingham, B26 3YU
Or fax it to: 0121 742 9571
Keeping in touch
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We anticipate organising the event during the month of*
The British Heart Foundation would like to keep you up-to-date on our work and
what you’re helping us to achieve.
q If you DO NOT wish to hear about this by post, please tick this box.
q If you DO NOT want to hear about this by phone, please tick this box.
q If you DO wish to hear about this by email, please tick this box.
ccasionally we allow other similar organisations to contact our supporters.
q OIf you
DO NOT wish to be contacted by them, please tick this box.
Postcode*
G489 (114)
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