Pace4Life

This World Heart Rhythm Week, help give someone a second chance at life 🌍

Pace4Life provides donated cardiac devices to patients in low- and middle-income countries who would otherwise have no or very limited access to treatment.

Support our work and make a difference today: https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/pace4life

Learn more: https://heartrhythmalliance.org/aa/uk/programs/pace4life

It is officially World Heart Rhythm Week 2026!

Millions of people worldwide live with heart rhythm disorders (arrhythmias) with many facing a daily impact on their health, wellbeing and quality of life.

This World Heart Rhythm Week, Arrhythmia Alliance is bringing patient voices to the forefront to improve awareness, understanding and encourage more personalised treatment and care.

Join the global movement and help drive positive change for people affected by heart rhythm conditions worldwide.

Get started here: worldheartrhythmweek.org

We are incredibly proud to announce that ForHearts Worldwide and Arrhythmia Alliance Pace4Life are collaborating on a global scale! 🤝

By combining our expertise in international pacemaker distribution, we are tearing down the financial and logistical barriers to cardiovascular care for those who need it most. 🌍🩺

Together, we can provide patients with a second chance at life. ❤️ Join our mission today.

Adopt a patient and restore rhythms globally 🔗 https://loom.ly/JTq-bZs

Thank you to Neville Funerals who donated 71 pacemakers and cardiac devices to Pace4Life in 2025! These devices were carefully reconditioned for patients in need overseas or were responsibly recycled to reduce waste.

We are always grateful for donations of pacemakers. If you can help, please find out more by visiting: https://heartrhythmalliance.org/aa/uk/programs/pace4life/donating-cardiac-devices

💚 Giving medical devices a second life 💚🌍

As part of our 150th anniversary year, we’ve been celebrating everything that makes Neville Funerals special — and that includes the work we do behind the scenes to support others.

Each year, we recover and donate used hearing aids and pacemakers to charities that refurbish and redistribute them to people in need around the world 🌐 — helping reduce waste and improve lives.

✨ From January to July 2025 alone, we’ve donated:
✔️ 244 hearing aids to Hearing Aid Recycling — already beating last year’s total of 103!
✔️ 71 pacemakers to Pace4Life

These life-changing devices would otherwise end up in landfill. Instead, they’re now helping people — including children and adults who wouldn’t otherwise have access to vital hearing or heart support.

Did you know over 40 million children around the world don’t have access to hearing services? It’s a figure that really puts the impact into perspective.

We’re incredibly proud to be part of something that brings health, hope and sustainability together.

Stay tuned — we’ll be sharing our full 2025 totals next month!

In November, Pace4Life was able to help support the Leeds Teaching Hospitals as they sent Trust colleagues to Karen, Kenya on a teaching mission by providing devices and other resources. The team is back, and they were able to complete seven pacemaker implants (five complex and two simple) and ablation treatment for abnormal and irregular heart rhythms at the Karen Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.

Dr Tayebjee (consultant cardiologist), Zara Campbell (highly specialised cardiac physiologist) and Nicola Hill (chief cardiac physiologist) visited Kenya last month. The team was able to help set up the local team’s equipment, provided hands on training and were able to provide specialist opinions for a number of patients. Patients have poor access to many cardiac treatments in large parts of Africa as there is a lack of expertise and technology is costly.

With your support, we can continue to deliver vital cardiac care and training where it is needed most. Donate today or learn more about how Pace4Life is improving access to heart care around the world: https://loom.ly/kSvwI9o

History is being made this week at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana as our mission team from Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust, has successfully completed the very first left bundle area pacing implant in Ghana!

Stay tuned for further updates and visit pace4life.org to learn more.