THE BRITISH Heart Foundation wants us all to face our fears next month to raise money for research into something truly scary - heart disease and vascular dementia.
Every year, heart and circulatory diseases including heart attack, stroke and vascular dementia kill around 14,700 in the South West area, which includes Dorset.
Today, more than 650,000 people in the region are living with these illnesses and the Face A Fear campaign calls upon us to pick the one thing we're scared of - then get sponsored to do it.
"We know that more than 32 per cent of people in the south west are most scared of spiders," says Face A Fear head Adrian Adams who will be facing his fear of needles by making a blood donation. "Knowing I’m helping people in more ways than one is what I will think about to get me through."
He said the money is needed to fund the cutting-edge breakthroughs the Heart Foundation needs to 'end the devastation caused by heart disease'.
If you'd like to Face A Fear and raise money for the British Heart Foundation contact bhf.org.uk/faceafear.
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