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January 2004
Metheringham & Dunston LIVES First Responders are celebrating after
receiving a Millennium Award of £1584 from
The Scarman
Trust for their Recruitment Roadshow.
More volunteers are needed to respond to 999 calls from villagers with
cardiac arrest, breathing difficulties, choking, collapse or chest pain.
Survival chances after a heart attack decrease by 10% every minute and
the chance of survival after 8 minutes is less than 5%. There are not
enough Responders in Metheringham, Dunston and Blankney to provide
24-hour cover, 7 days a week. The Award means that the Group can
advertise extensively and take a professional Recruitment Roadshow to
local organisations.
Millennium Award winner, Lesley Westall, said "Receiving this Award
means that we can get our message across to everyone in our villages. We
are desperately short of volunteers and, when we heard about The Scarman
Trust, the First Responders encouraged me to bid for money to undertake
a major advertising and recruitment drive. It was hard work but Adrian
Horsley at The Scarman Trust has been very supportive and we have
already started spending the money! The Trust and the Millennium
Commission are encouraging local people to make a real difference in
their own communities and the First Responders Scheme provides local
people with an opportunity to help fellow villagers."
The Roadshow will be on the move in Metheringham, Dunston and Blankney
during March, April and May and will offer local organisations a
professional presentation, aimed at demonstrating that First Responders
are ordinary people from all walks of life - no qualifications needed,
just a willingness to help others. The LIVES organisation, in
partnership with the ambulance service, provides all the necessary
training and volunteers can offer to be available on call as little or
as often as they can.
If you would like to see the Roadshow then contact Lesley Westall on
01526 321032.
Metheringham & Dunston First Responders web page
email address:
admin@1st-responders.org
Lincolnshire
Integrated Voluntary Emergency Services (L.I.V.E.S.)
British
Association for Immediate Care (BASICS)
The Scarman
Trust
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