Once again training will be provided by the charity Trossachs Search + Rescue*. There will be two training sessions this May.
Numbers are limited and you have to have register if you wish to attend. Attendance is free, but there will be a donation box** and a QR code to donate online to the charity.
The team is entirely run by volunteers and have no paid staff. All funding comes from public donation, commuity grants, or private sponsorship. The charity receives no government funding for the work they do. The money that they raise goes directly to the services they provide across the Trossachs and beyond.
If you wish to attend, please email me at donforrester@hotmail.com stating a preferred date or if you are able to attend either date. I will try and even out the numbers between the dates. Please put ‘CPR training’ in the subject box.
** suggestions from last year are for a donations bucket as the can had too small an opening and folk struggled to get notes into it (Thanks Donna P) and place the chairs in a circle which Russell and I will do, making it easier for everyone to see. As I’ve split the training into 2 sessions the numbers should be more manageable.
Thanks,
Don
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*Trossachs Search + Rescue is a Scottish registered charity run entirely by volunteers.
Since our formation in 1998 our aim has been to teach valuable lifesaving skills such as the recovery position, CPR and dealing with severe bleeding and choking. We have also supplemented them with our bespoke CPR & Defibrillator classes when installing defibrillators at businesses.
In 2013 TSAR extended our CPR programme to Public Access Defibrillators (PADs) with a mission to raise funds for and place public access defibrillators in every village and at key tourist sites in our area. This programme has received critical acclaim and we are proud to now have over 150 PADS in place!
To date (as of April 2020) 26 lives have been saved by members of the public using CPR and the Public Acess Defibs we have installed.
In October 2015 we organised the first Scottish Community Resuscitation Conference at the School of Medicine, University of St Andrews – a not-for-profit event designed to promote community CPR training and the use of public access defibrillators. Supported by the Scottish Ambulance Service and Scottish Government, it was a huge success.
In April 2016 we launched our Defib Locator App which provides information on the location of public access defibs in Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park and surrounding communities. People can download the link to the app onto their phone FREE OF CHARGE. This potentially lifesaving app has been necessary as the Scottish Ambulance Service does not have a mapping system for defibs. In the week that it has been launched it was distributed by Scottish Government Resilience, Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme Scotland & UK, NHS Highland and other large organisations involved in tourism.
It can be downloaded at https://www.trossachsdefibrillator.co.uk/
In June 2016, at the Scottish Cardiac Arrest Symposium, the charity was awarded Runner Up in the inaugural national Newton Award 2016 which celebrates commitment to tackling Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Scotland.
We typically deliver over 60 classes a year training over 2,000 people in schools, local businesses and public and community classes.