First Responders play an important rural role!
There are volunteers within North Clydesdale who are playing a life-saving role, supporting the Scottish Ambulance Service. Community First Responders are trained volunteers who can be dispatched by the Scottish Ambulance Service to provide medical help and support until an ambulance arrives, and can be vital in saving lives particularly in rural areas where it can take longer for the emergency services to arrive.
The volunteers of the Forth Community First Responder Scheme who cover from Forth to Carnwath, including the villages of Woolfords, Auchengray and Tarbrax, have recently received a second First Responders Kit through funding secured by WAT IF? (Woolfords, Auchengray and Tarbrax Improvement Foundation). This essential equipment will mean that there are two kits available for the volunteers to use, increasing the efficiency of how they operate. WAT IF? is the local development Trust and secured funding for the kit from the South Lanarkshire Renewable Energy Fund.
Chris Walker, the Director of Muirhall, one of the windfarms which contributes to the Renewable Energy Fund, was pleased that the fund could support a worthy cause:
“In our rural communities, the First Responders play such a key role within the emergency services and all credit should be given to the volunteers. It is fantastic that the community benefit funds can be used to support them and provide the equipment that they need.”
For further information on the role of Community First Responders within the Scottish Ambulance Service please visit http://www.scottishambulance.com/YourCommunity/responders.aspx
(April 2017)
There are volunteers within North Clydesdale who are playing a life-saving role, supporting the Scottish Ambulance Service. Community First Responders are trained volunteers who can be dispatched by the Scottish Ambulance Service to provide medical help and support until an ambulance arrives, and can be vital in saving lives particularly in rural areas where it can take longer for the emergency services to arrive.
The volunteers of the Forth Community First Responder Scheme who cover from Forth to Carnwath, including the villages of Woolfords, Auchengray and Tarbrax, have recently received a second First Responders Kit through funding secured by WAT IF? (Woolfords, Auchengray and Tarbrax Improvement Foundation). This essential equipment will mean that there are two kits available for the volunteers to use, increasing the efficiency of how they operate. WAT IF? is the local development Trust and secured funding for the kit from the South Lanarkshire Renewable Energy Fund.
Chris Walker, the Director of Muirhall, one of the windfarms which contributes to the Renewable Energy Fund, was pleased that the fund could support a worthy cause:
“In our rural communities, the First Responders play such a key role within the emergency services and all credit should be given to the volunteers. It is fantastic that the community benefit funds can be used to support them and provide the equipment that they need.”
For further information on the role of Community First Responders within the Scottish Ambulance Service please visit http://www.scottishambulance.com/YourCommunity/responders.aspx
(April 2017)