We need your help to get local businesses, schools, clubs and groups to get CPR confident through our new CPR Skills for Life programme.
If you’ve got time to spare and a passion to share, you can join our team of CPR Skills for Life Volunteers and help save lives in your community.
Participants of the programme learn how to assess a patient, call for help, perform effective chest compressions and how to use a defibrillator.
More than 400 people have taken part in the free sessions in the first few weeks alone, and demand for the programme continues to rise.
You will be given all the tools, training and support required to help inspire the next group of potential lifesavers.
Whether you’ve got hours or days to commit, we would love to hear from you.
Keith Wilson, our director of income and engagement, said:
“A cardiac arrest can happen to anyone, anywhere at any time. Whether it’s a loved one in your home or a stranger in a shopping centre, we want to empower people to step up and perform CPR to give that person the best chance of surviving and returning home.
“It’s incredibly exciting to offer our existing and prospective volunteers the opportunity to donate their time spearheading this potentially life-saving programme.”
There are 30,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the UK each year, with fewer than 1 in 10 people surviving. For every minute that goes by without a patient receiving CPR or defibrillation, their chance of survival decreases by 10%.
1 in 5 missions carried out by our highly skilled doctors, dispatchers, pilots and paramedics are to cardiac-related incidents – around 400 in 2023.
Volunteers looking to get involved can register today.
Businesses, schools, community groups and clubs can get CPR confident, including how to use an automated external defibrillator, by signing up to CPR Skills for Life.
