We are extremely excited to say the our AED (Automated External Defibrillator) Project is still on going with the formal launch of the AED in Dobbies Garden Centre, which has now been registered with the Ambulance Service and by the time you read this, the next one on the Spencers Wood Village Hall will have also been installed. That brings our total that we have installed to 16 and we are directly responsible for another 8, meaning that 24 of these life saving machines are out there because of us!

We are really excited to announce that the Charity Pantomime raised more than £1900.

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We are pleased to announce that we have just given yet another AED to one of our local schools.  This time is to St Marys Junior School in Wokingham.

Barry and Steve took the AED down there to show the staff how it all worked.  So that’s another one that the group have donated.

Barry with Mrs Sue Runciman, Head Teacher

We are very happy to announce that the Swallowfield Community responders were shortlisted out of many hundreds of schemes in this years Heartsafe Awards.  Whilst they did not win, they were nevertheless very proud to have made it that far in the face of many other schemes.

The UK Heart Safe Awards, is the UK’s leading national awards competition to celebrate organisations and employers who invest in creating Heart Safe environments and the acts of individuals who have saved lives while at work or leisure.

We are very pleased to announce that Heartstart Swallowfield and the Swallowfield Community Responders have between them raised enough funds to donate three AED’s to our local Schools.

Two of these have now been deployed in the Oakbank School and Lambs Lane School.

Barry and Gary with 2 OakBank pupils

Barry and Gary with Mrs Finn (Head Teacher of Lambs Land) and 2 pupils

We now have to deploy the last remaining one into Shinfield St Mary’s Junior School.

We are very pleased to announce that not only have Fraser’s Budgens allowed us to reinstall the Public AED onto their Three Mile Cross Site, they have also paid for the privilege!  Frasers is a family run Company that really likes to be part of the Community and they jumped at the chance to show this by asking whether they could actually make a donation to pay for the AED that was on the front of their shop. We really must thank the Fraser family as this donation actually means that we can place a defibrillator into one of the local schools.

(from the left: Gary Clark; Nick Fraser; Jonathan Fraser; Barry Davis)

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We were once again very happy and pleased to be invited back to the Swallowfield Church Fete.  The weather held on the whole and the Fete saw hundreds of people attending.  at one point there was not a single chair left around the tea tent and it looked like the whole or the vicinity had descended to partake in afternoon tea and cakes!

We were busier than normal with lots of people wanting to try CPR and / or the AED.. We put this down to our bigger Gazebo where we now have much more space