Restart the Heart

16/06/2026

🎡🎠 BURRS BIG WEEKEND MAY BE POSTPONED… BUT THE FUN ISN’T! 🎠🎡

As many of you know, due to my recent major surgery, we made the difficult decision to postpone Burrs Big Weekend until July 2027.

However, we didn’t want Bury families to miss out completely this summer, so we’re delighted to announce that we’re bringing something special to Burrs Country Park from 22nd–26th July! 🎉

🌟 BURRS BIG INFLATABLE & RIDES WEEK🌟

Join us for 5 days of family fun featuring:

🎢 Rides
🏰 Bouncy Castles
🎠 Funhouse
🦘 Trampolines
🛝 Giant Slides
🍭 Sweets, Food & Drinks
👑 Princess Show
🦸 Superhero Show
🎶 K-Pop Entertainment
…and so much more!

💙 Best of all, funds raised will help support Restart The Heart and our lifesaving work providing public access defibrillators and CPR awareness across our communities.

📅 22nd – 26th July
📍 Burrs Country Park, Bury
Get your tickets here below
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Book your tickets online now https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1991705719422?aff=oddtdtcreator

£7.99 unlimited rides and bounce or pay on the day for £9.99

A huge thank you to Northwest Funfairs for working with us to bring this fantastic event to Bury.

Please like, share and tag your friends and family let’s make this an amazing week for local children and families and help raise funds for a great cause at the same time! ❤️

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Burrs big inflatable and rides weekend

16/06/2026

🚨 CHECK YOUR DEFIB WEEK 🚨

Resuscitation Council UK has launched Check Your Defib Week (15–21 June) a national campaign encouraging communities, organisations and individuals to take a simple but vital step: make sure their defibrillators are rescue ready.

At Restart The Heart, we have checked every defibrillator within our network to ensure they are ready should someone need them in an emergency. ❤️

You can help too!

If you walk past a defibrillator, take a quick look through the cabinet window. If the green status light is not flashing, or if you think something doesn’t look right, please pop us a message.

Even if it’s not one of our defibrillators, we’ll do our best to locate the guardian and help get the issue resolved as quickly as possible.

Together, we can help ensure every defibrillator is ready to save a life when it matters most. 💚

10/06/2026

🫶 We need your vote! 🫶

Restart The Heart has been shortlisted to become The Rock’s Charity of the Year, and your support could make a huge difference.

Every vote helps us maintain our growing network of public access defibrillators, educate more people on the life-saving importance of CPR, and install new external defibrillators across our communities.

Together, we’re helping to save lives. ❤️

Please take a moment to vote for Restart The Heart and share this post with your family and friends.

Please vote on the link below
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https://therockbury.com/vote-charity-year/

Thank you for your continued support! 💙

We have been overwhelmed by the number of applications we received and the team here at The Rock has been through every application.

08/06/2026

Read and share to help improve awareness

The Christian Eriksen collapse explained: what an ICD does, why it is not a pacemaker, and how it differs from a heart attack.

05/06/2026

❤️ WE NEED YOUR VOTE! ❤️

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Restart The Heart has been shortlisted as one of the final three charities in the running to become the charity of the year for The Rock!

This means so much to us. As a completely volunteer-led charity, every penny we raise goes directly back into our mission of saving lives through:

🚑 Public Access Defibrillators
❤️ CPR Awareness & Education
📍 Defibrillator Maintenance & Readiness
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Community Training & Engagement

Since we started, we’ve installed 50 public access defibrillators across our communities and educated thousands of people on how to respond in a cardiac emergency. But there is still so much more to do.

From Monday 1st June, public voting opens and we would be incredibly grateful if you could spare just a minute to vote for Restart The Heart.

Every vote could help us place more lifesaving defibrillators, deliver more CPR education, and continue making our communities safer places to live, work and visit.

❤️ Please vote.
❤️ Please share.
❤️ Please ask your friends and family to vote too.

Please vote on the link below
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https://therockbury.com/vote-charity-year/

Together, we can continue making a difference when every second counts.

Good luck to the two other charities short listed ❤️❤️

Restart The Heart ❤️
Defibs • CPR • Education

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We have been overwhelmed by the number of applications we received and the team here at The Rock has been through every application.

04/06/2026

💔 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT 💔
BURRS BIG WEEKEND

It is with great sadness that we have to announce that Burrs Big Weekend 2026 will not be going ahead in its usual format.

After much discussion and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to scale the event back to a fantastic community FUNFAIR, which will still take place and continue raising funds for Restart The Heart. Unfortunately, the music festival element of the event has been postponed until July 2027.

Sarah has been seriously unwell for some time and has recently undergone major surgerys. Despite her determination to keep pushing forward, her recovery is taking much longer than hoped.

This decision has not been taken lightly. Burrs Big Weekend means so much to Sarah, our volunteers, sponsors, performers, stallholders, supporters and the wider community.

We know how many people were looking forward to another incredible weekend of live music, family entertainment and fundraising.

Right now, Sarah's health and recovery must come first.

The good news is that Burrs Big Weekend is not ending, it is simply taking a pause. We are already looking ahead to July 2027, when we intend to bring the event back bigger, better and stronger than ever.

We hope the community will continue to support this year's funfair and help us ensure Burrs Big Weekend returns stronger than ever in 2027.

We are currently finalising plans for this year's funfair and look forward to sharing more details very soon, so please keep an eye on our social media channels.

Sarah would like to personally thank everyone for their understanding, support, patience and the many kind messages she has received during this difficult time. They have meant more than words can say.

Restart The Heart's work continues every day. Together, we will keep raising awareness of CPR, funding lifesaving defibrillators and helping to save lives across our communities.

Thank you for standing by us. ❤️

From Sarah Jones
Restart The Heart ❤️
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02/06/2026

❤️ Volunteers’ Week 2026 1st–7th June ❤️

This week, we want to take a moment to say a huge THANK YOU to every single volunteer who supports Restart The Heart ♥️

From fundraising and organising events, to helping with defibrillator installations, checking lifesaving equipment, delivering CPR awareness sessions, manning stalls, putting up banners, sharing our posts and giving up their time whenever we need them we simply couldn’t do what we do without you.

As a completely volunteer-led charity, every defibrillator installed, every life potentially saved, and every person taught CPR is only possible because of the dedication, passion, and kindness of our amazing volunteers.

You give your time freely, often behind the scenes, with no expectation of recognition, yet your impact is felt across our communities every single day.

To each and every one of you thank you for believing in our mission, thank you for your commitment, and thank you for helping us make a difference.

You are the heartbeat behind Restart The Heart. ❤️

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