About us
We are a small National Charity, formed in 2009 to provide a grass roots approach to community life saving in the event of Cardiac Arrest. Our goals are to equip the general public in England, Scotland and Wales with the knowledge, equipment and support to produce life-saving outcomes based upon the chain of survival, with a specific focus on helping non-medically trained people become life-savers.
- The UK's leading Community Defibrillator Charity
- Working with over 7500 communities in partnership to fundraise, provide and install defibrillator projects
- 250,000+ members of the public have attended our awareness sessions on CPR and Basic Life Support
- 6000+ of our partnership defibs have been deployed to rescues!
- The UK's only official provider of AED schemes for Telephone kiosks
More recently we have also opened for applications from people for defibrillators in the home, where they have genetic conditions that may pre-dispose them to a Cardiac Arrest and do not have the funds for a device. Such applications also extend to homeless shelters, specialist schools and other groups who have either no access to or are severely limited by their funding, such as Action Homeless Leicester and Emilio a 24-year-old at the time with a narrowed heart valve who had undergone four open heart surgeries...
