How to help

How you can help the Heart Foundation's Mission

You can help yourself and your family by:

Enjoying healthy eating
Being physically active every day
Being smoke-free
Having regular medical check ups

You can help the Heart Foundation by:

Supporting our fundraising events. Contact your local branch office
Becoming a Volunteer, corporate partner/sponsor or by becoming a Heart Racer
Making a memorial gift as a mark of respect for those who have died. Memorial gifts are promptly acknowledged to both the donor and the family of the deceased.
Making a donation online
Purchasing a lottery ticket. We offer a house as the major prize!
Remembering the Heart Foundation in your Will
Directly from your payslip through Payroll Giving
Becoming an Advocate

Contact your local Heart Foundation branch for more details on anything mentioned above.

Donor/supporter fundraising and revenue-generating activities

Recently there have been a number of stories in the media about perceived dubious fundraising methods and costs in some charities.

The Heart Foundation's donor fundraising activities include a mix of supporter appeals, online donations, trusts, bequests and personal donor relationships. We do not work with commission-based telephone fundraising contractors. After fundraising costs, approximately 85% of donations go towards the Heart Foundation's work.

We also run a regular charity lottery to raise additional funds. Tickets for the lottery are purchases rather than donations e.g. they do not qualify for a tax rebate. This is because each ticket bought gives the chance to win a prize from the prize pool of over $500,000 worth of various prizes per Lottery. Each lottery (6 per year) is monitored by the Department of Internal Affairs through licensing and auditing requirements, to ensure that NZ lottery legislative requirements are followed and that the acceptable standard of lottery-based funding is generated for our charity. After Lottery costs including prizes, approximately 33% of GST exclusive ticket sales revenue from each lottery goes towards the Heart Foundation's work.

The Heart Foundation is a reputable charity with ethical fundraising and revenue-generating activities managed to the highest standards of accountability.

Thank-you to all our supporters - together we can beat heart disease!