THE team at DFS Hove are celebrating after helping to raise an amazing £13 million for the British Heart Foundation.

To celebrate, sales advisor Paul Davison was joined by DFS Team GB brand ambassador and double gold medallist Max Whitlock to showcase not only the importance of recycling unwanted sofas but also the exercises that can be done on them to help keep your heart healthy.

The scheme allows DFS customers to have their unwanted sofa collected for free by the BHF when their new DFS one is delivered.

The old sofa is then sold by the BHF in one of its furniture and electrical stores across the country to help raise money to fund lifesaving heart research.

Max Whitlock said: “Paul and the team at DFS Hove have done a fantastic job helping to reach the £13 million milestone.

“These funds are vital in supporting the fantastic work the British Heart Foundation does when it comes to supporting lifesaving heart research, and all it takes to help is simply recycle your unwanted sofas.”

DFS Hove and the other 108 stores across the UK are thrilled with their collective fundraising milestone of more than £13 million to help support the charity through its sofa donation project which launched in May 2012.

Paul Davison, sales advisor at DFS Hove, said: “We were all very excited to meet Max and have him join our fundraising celebrations.

“He knows first-hand the importance of hard work and dedication when it comes to reaching key milestones.

“It’s a sobering thought to think that on average 435 people lose their lives to cardiovascular disease every day, so myself and the entire Hove team are proud to know that all money raised from the sofa donation project supports the British Heart Foundation’s life saving research.

“There are no words to describe the importance of what the BHF does.”