Enjoy
Jump Rope
FOR HEART
Get over £100 worth of free skipping ropes.
Raise money for our life-saving
research and your school.
A fun event for you and your pupils that can
be held anytime during the school 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,
educational and helps raise money for schools and
our fight for every heartbeat.
Registered schools receive a free skipping kit
(containing equipment worth over £100) enabling them
to introduce and develop skipping through the PE
curriculum, informally in the playground, or at an after
school club. The activity is hugely popular and over
1,000 schools took part last year.
What’s involved?
Once children have mastered the basic
skipping skills, a Jump Off (sponsored
skip) is held. Pupils 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 schools.
Why skipping is a great
activity for children
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S kipping is a popular way for
pupils 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 pupils, 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 classes or
the entire school – staff and
parents included!
FREE kit
worth £100
The free organiser’s kit
contains everything you
need in order to organise
a successful Jump Off event.
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Thirty-three brightly
coloured skipping ropes
including two Double
Dutch skipping ropes.
Skipping skills DVD
(created to make it even
easier for teachers to
introduce skipping at
their school).
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A comprehensive
teacher’s manual
(includes lesson plans).
Jump Off manual
(a step-by-step guide
on how to hold a
successful event).
Skipping skills
resource cards.
When do you hold
the Jump Off?
It can be held anytime during the
academic year. Some schools choose
to hold their event on their Sport or
Healthy Living day, during the spring
or summer term (so the event can
be held outside) or during National
School Sport Week.
Children and heart disease
Heart disease touches us all. It is
indiscriminate, affecting young and
old alike.
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One in every 180 babies
born has a heart defect.
About 30,000 teenagers in
the UK are currently living
with heart conditions.
About one in three children
are overweight or obese.
Everyone wins with JRFH
Your children win
Children of all ages and abilities
love skipping. It’s great fun and can
contribute to their recommended
one hour a day of physical activity.
Promotional posters
and sponsor forms.
Each child that participates
in a Jump Off will also receive
a thank you certificate.
You win
It’s simple to organise and they
get a comprehensive teachers’
pack worth over £100, with 33 free
skipping ropes.
Your school wins
You get to keep 20 per cent of the
money raised to support your work.
JRFH can also contribute to the
achievement of a healthy or active
schools type award.
Your community wins
Coronary heart disease is the UK’s
single biggest killer. The money you
raise will help the BHF fund research
to prevent, predict and try to cure
heart disease. It will also provide vital
support to those children and adults
enduring daily battles with heart
disease today.
Jump to it!
Use the 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. Alternatively, you can 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 school is not already registered to hold
another BHF event and it has either a UK or BFPO
address, it can register for this event.
Full name of school*
agrees to organise a sponsored skipping event
on behalf of the British Heart Foundation.
We anticipate organising our event
during the month of*
(You need to allow at least four weeks to organise your event,
so your children can practise their skipping and raise funds).
What length skipping ropes would
you like to receive? (Please tick one box only)*
[ ] 7 & 8 feet
[ ] 8 & 9 feet [ ] 7, 8 & 9 feet
[ ] 8, 9 & 10 feet [ ] 9 & 10 feet [ ] No ropes required
Length of rope
7 feet (213 cm) 8 feet (244 cm) 9 feet (274 cm) 10 feet (305 cm)
Skipper’s height
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)
Please send the JFRH kit to:
(must be the contact details of a member of staff at the school):
Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss/Other*
First name*
How many sponsor forms should we
enclose in your JRFH kit?*
[ ] 50 [ ] 100 [ ] 200 Other quantity
What age will the majority of the children
be that take part in your event?*
[ ] Under 11 [ ] Over 11 (please tick one box only)
How did you hear about this event?*
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] Local BHF representative
] Magazine/newspaper article
] Magazine/newspaper advert/insert
] Social media
[ ] Other (please specify)
Conditions of registration
We provide the Jump Rope For Heart resources on the understanding that:
school will hold a sponsored event during the 2014/15
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school year or the following school year if your event month falls
into that year.
decide not to hold a fundraising event and do not return
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unused, your school will reimburse the British Heart
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Foundation for the £100 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 or are able to obtain the agreement of your
head teacher to take part in this event.
I have read and agree to the above conditions
of registration*
Surname*
Job title/Position*
Date* [ D ][ D ]/[ M ][ M ]/[ Y ][ Y ]
Address of school*
Please make sure you have completed ALL the sections
marked with a * symbol, as we will not be able to send you
your pack until we have received all this information.
Town*
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
County
Postcode*
School telephone no.*
Email address*
Keeping in touch
The British Heart Foundation would like to keep you up-to-date
on our work and what you’re helping us to achieve. Please tick the
relevant box from below:
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