North West Community First RespondersRegistered

The charity's purposes ('the purposes') are • To set up and operate a volunteer-led community first responder scheme • To provide life-saving care to people with any of a range of medical emergencies, as laid down from time to time by the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service, in our communities, pending the arrival of the ambulance service • To recruit, co-ordinate and equip local volunteers who will be trained and alerted by the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service to assess and provide an appropriate intervention to those with medical emergencies, in our localities • To provide, as appropriate, resuscitation including use of a defibrillator, care and support pending the arrival of an emergency ambulance, which will be dispatched simultaneously with the first responders • To provide CPR and defibrillation training for all age groups and all localities, to broaden the range of responders and further reduce the risk of death from cardiac arrest. The advancement of health or the saving of lives