Volunteers provide first aid training to over 11,000 members of the community

We are delighted to announce that during 2011 St John Ambulance Kent volunteers trained 11,055 members of the community in first aid.

High level of community involvement

During 2011 St John Ambulance Kent was involved in numerous highly successful community campaigns to encourage first aid training including attending the ‘Safety Shop’ in Bluewater shopping centre and the national ‘Save a life September’ campaign which involved demonstrations hosted at four major shopping centres.

Jim Knight, Director of Training says: ‘It’s great news that we have trained so many individuals throughout the county in the last 12 months. In total we have trained over 7,000 youngsters, with 1,584 school children receiving Young First Aider courses in schools. We have also trained nearly 4,000 adults in First Aid, 853 of which have received Essential First Aid or Basic First Aid certificates.’