About Us

The Heart Foundation 

Since we started just over 40 years ago, heart disease death rates in New Zealand have halved and stroke death rates have almost halved.  Despite these tremendous advances, these disease still account for more than 40% of all deaths in New Zealand each year, many of which are premature and preventable. With your help we can continue the fight against heart disease - the  single biggest killer of men and women. Together we will beat heart disease

Who we are

Each of us is born with the most precious gift. A lifetime. 

And each is unique because each of us fills their life differently; different experiences, relationships and, of course, choices - big ones and lots of little ones. 

The heart is our engine, our furnace, the source of who we are. It is the start and finish of everything we do, have done and are still yet to achieve.

We're the Heart Foundation. We're determined to stop the insidious creep of the disease that shuts down more lives of New Zealanders than any other. Disease that chokes the heart and cuts short too many stories before they're told.  

There is is so much good that we can fill ourlives with if we choose, and we've got a lifetime to do it.

Fulfil a lifetime. The time is now.