New Halstead building project generating interest from community groups in first aid training

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This page continues on from the plans identified previously.

Part of the aims of building a new Halstead headquarters is to deliver community first aid training programmes to the surrounding villages and community groups, as well as more broadly in Essex.

From presentations and meetings with many such groups, we have been successful in generating lots of new interest for community first aid training.

Organisations interested in community first aid training

We have so far received expressions of interest from the the following community based groups (30 across Essex). Their requirements vary from training a handful of people, to many hundreds across Essex's many branches.

  • 1st Maldon Guides
  • 1st Mersea Guides
  • 2nd Witham boys brigade
  • 5th Maldon Guides
  • Buffy Bus
  • Colchester Girl Guides
  • Colchester Yes
  • Community Welbeing Strategy Manager ECC
  • Disability Essex
  • ECVYS 'Essex Council for Voluntary Youth Services’
  • Essex Association of boys and girls clubs
  • Essex Coalition of disabled people
  • Essex Young Farmers
  • Families in Focus
  • Felsted Youth Club Greenfields Community Housing Limited
  • Halstead Day Centre
  • Homestart
  • Homestart Basildon
  • Homestart Uttlesford
  • Interact
  • Maldon District Community Transport
  • Mersea Island club 74
  • Royal Association for the deaf
  • Success after stroke
  • Tendring Youth Leaders
  • Victim Support
  • Voluntary Sector Relations ECC
  • Wethersfield & Bocking Girl Guides
  • Womens Institute

Training plans

The new programme of community first aid training will be open to all and is non-discriminative, aiming to meet identified needs of diversity, disability, exclusion and isolation in these rural areas of Essex.

Our Schools Liaison Officer(s), who currently teach First Aid to the schools, will be able to use this new building to offer their services to schools and community groups which were previously out of reach. Their work will be aided by voluntary trainers from various St John Ambulance Units around Essex.

No one should die because they needed first aid and didn't get it. Our aim is to reduce the number of unnecessary deaths due to the lack of first aid training in the community.

St John Ambulance the differenceWe have successfully run many such community first aid courses in other areas of Essex, with waiting lists for the future. Our feedback forms show substantial public support for such ventures.