Heartbeat Northern Ireland

9 Turloughs Hill
Annalong
Co Down
BT34 4XD

Tel: 02843 768786
Web: www.heartbeatni.org.uk

Heartbeat, the Northern Ireland children's heart disease charity, is a parent support group for families of children who have heart disease. In excess of 200 babies are born here each year in Norther Ireland with a heart disorder. One third of these children are sufficiently ill to require investigation and/or surgery.

Heartbeat is made up of several locally-based groups, represented at committee level by their group organisers, and all office-bearers of the committee are elected from these group organisers.

The local groups work in many ways, but the primary aim of the Association is to provide emotional and practical support to any family or individual who has a child with heart disease. Support is carried on as and however the child's family has need of it, and many of these families then become active members themselves, with a desire to help others as they know how important it can be to have someone to lean on.