HEARTLINE ASSOCIATIONFor children with heart conditions and their families. 
HeartLine is a registered charity and was set up in 1977 by staff and parents at Great Ormond Street to offer help and support to children with heart disorders and their families throughout the UK - with over 50 Area Contacts. Their offices are in Surrey, where a small staff handle queries, and amongst other things arrange sailing trips, holidays for the children and their families, and a summer event. HeartLine publish the ever-valuable 'Heart Children Book', now produced in eight languages, and a quarterly magazine. They also send Information Packs for families to the hospitals that treat heart children. HeartLine also provide support through a rota of hospital visitors, and staffing by volunteers of information desks at cardiac outpatients clinics. National administrator Pam Lawrence said, 'We also have a website that offers lively forums with nearly 3000 messages at any one time, where parents offer each other sympathy, comfort and advice during surgery, family, social and school problems. Membership to the association is free and open to all children with a heart defect and their families. We also welcome any person interested in supporting such a family.' HeartLine Association Community Link Surrey Heath House Knoll Road Camberley GU15 3HH Tel: 01276 707636 Email: admin@heartline.org.uk www.heartline.org.uk Registered charity number 295803 |
