Health Promotion

Healthy Heart Checks

The Healthy Heart Check is a comprehensive assessment designed to evaluate your cardiovascular health, including checking for total cholesterol, blood pressure and heart age.

Testing your cardiovascular health can help to detect and identify risk factors for cardiovascular disease, which in turn allows for earlier intervention and potentially preventing the progression of heart disease.

The check is designed to take around 10 minutes, in which time you will have a finger prick test (taking a small sample of blood from your finger), have had your blood pressure checked, with your results sent directly to your email and explained to you by a member of HTF staff.

Our staff will test without judgement, and are here to provide you with the information required so that you can make informed decisions and manage your own health and wellbeing.

Healthy Heart Checks take place on match days and out in the community.

Check In With Your Mate

Check In With Your Mate is a Public Health campaign which aims to promote a wellbeing culture by normalising the conversation around suicide and mental health. Working with Kirklees Public Health, HTF have incorporated this campaign and ethos into all programmes delivered, ensuring that our programmes are accessible and create an environment where people feel they can be themselves.

MORE MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT HERE

Match Day Health Checks

On specified match days across the season, we have hosted Health providers and local charities, such as NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Service and Kirklees Wellbeing Service to promote their screening services and local opportunities to our home and travelling supporters. Health providers will be located within the Fan Zone and promoted prior to fixtures so you can plan your visit.

Dementia Friends

At Huddersfield Town Foundation, we support those living with Dementia, and aim to create Dementia Friendly environments across our communities. Our Staff team are trained Dementia Friends and would encourage others to do the training too! (Use our code to access Dementia Friends Training - Hud30079)

BECOME A DEMENTIA FRIEND

FAQs

Can’t find the answer you’re looking for? Reach out to our team and contact us with any questions: help@htafcfoundation.com

No. Our Healthy Heart Checks and wider health activities are free!

We can deliver Healthy Heart Checks at community spaces, on match days and at our programmes where we work with adults aged 18+.

"The Healthy Heart Check I had was really straight forward and I was made to feel at ease throughout by the Foundation's friendly staff. It was good to have the results sent to me afterwards so I could compare to future tests."

Dan (Health Check Recipient)