Delivering a basic life skill in primary classrooms
Making a difference in the community
In simple terms, we provide high-quality, fully-accredited first aid training for businesses across Scotland. However, our story is much bigger than this…
Did you know that only 12% of people in the UK have had any form of first aid training? Worse still, elsewhere in Europe around 80% of people have – we don’t think this is right.
We believe the best time to be trained in first aid is at school, however this is seen as ‘non-essential’ and so budgets are allocated elsewhere.
Our mission is to provide first aid training to every school pupil across North-east Scotland, for free, and you can help. For every course we sell to businesses, we will train a class of school children free of charge.
The benefits to your business are clear: top quality, mandatory first aid training, while contributing towards your corporate social responsibility (CSR) targets and a fantastic PR opportunity.
Teachers love what we do too. In fact, most consider first-aid training a basic life skill everyone should learn, just like cycling or swimming.
Parents are just as enthusiastic, and we know the children love what we do — because they tell us! They find the training exciting and different, and they are very receptive. Children lack the fears and inhibitions we have as adults and they also are more prepared to do as they are told!
Did you know that only 12% of people in the UK have had any form of first aid training? Worse still, elsewhere in Europe around 80% of people have – we don’t think this is right.
We believe the best time to be trained in first aid is at school, however this is seen as ‘non-essential’ and so budgets are allocated elsewhere.
Our mission is to provide first aid training to every school pupil across North-east Scotland, for free, and you can help. For every course we sell to businesses, we will train a class of school children free of charge.
The benefits to your business are clear: top quality, mandatory first aid training, while contributing towards your corporate social responsibility (CSR) targets and a fantastic PR opportunity.
Teachers love what we do too. In fact, most consider first-aid training a basic life skill everyone should learn, just like cycling or swimming.
Parents are just as enthusiastic, and we know the children love what we do — because they tell us! They find the training exciting and different, and they are very receptive. Children lack the fears and inhibitions we have as adults and they also are more prepared to do as they are told!
We also know what a difference the Grampian Training Services classroom programme makes out in the community. Here are just a few examples:
- One pupil we trained helped her brother survive a car accident. She stopped his bleeding and managed his shock until the ambulance arrived. The crew said her first aid skills had saved his life.
- Another recognised the symptoms when her grandfather had a heart attack. When he went into cardiac arrest, she performed CPR while waiting for help. Her grandad survived.
- A boy stepped in when his younger brother began choking on a sweet while their mother was out of the room.
Photo courtesy of Norman Adams, Aberdeen City Council
Aberdeen pupils Jac Banks (left) and Bradley Chalmers (right) helped save the life of Fernilea School classmate Tyler Hood (centre) when he fell off his scooter and was knocked unconscious. Just a few months earlier they had completed the Grampian Training Services Young Emergency Aider scheme and knew they had to put Tyler in the recovery position while waiting for help. The boys received their headteacher’s award.
https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/top-class-kids-saved-pals-life/