How Can You Help?

Volunteers

Our team of Community First Responders currently provide cover around the clock, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, on a rota basis.

Volunteer responders can be male or female, aged from 18 to 70, must have access to a car and be able to attend emergency calls from either their home or place of work in Hemsby, Martham Area,  as soon as they are received, in a similar way to which retained fire fighters or volunteer RNLI staff or other volunteer emergency services operate. Not a huge amount of time is required as a volunteer, as normal life can go on while a responder is on call.
 

A volunteer responder needs to be extremely reliable and trust worthy, good under pressure, able to remain calm in emergency situations, be caring when dealing with patients and have a decent level of physical fitness. While a responder is on call they can continue with their normal day to day activities, but must be ready to drop everything and attend a call should one arise while they are on duty.

You need to also be checked by CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) for any Criminal Record

Extensive initial and on-going training and assessment is provided by East Of England Ambulance Service who run a Edexcel FPOS (First Person On Scene) course, a nationally accredited award

Anyone who would like further information about volunteering or would like to pledge a donation to the scheme should contact us - click here.

Funding needed to keep scheme operational

East Of England Ambulance Service do not provide funding for the all of the equipment, but they do provide the training, support and communication equipment and pagers to the volunteers.

Therefore the scheme is constantly looking for funds from local businesses, organisations and people, to allow us to expand and replace our range of skills and equipment and to keep us operational. All our team give up their time to train, be on call and deal with all the other administration tasks as volunteers, and receive no payment or expenses such as fuel costs at all.

See here for more details of the support we have received so far.

Anyone who would like further information about volunteering or would like to pledge a donation to the scheme should contact us - click here.