The next Public Access Defibrillator is now live at the Riseley Village Tea Rooms in Riseley.
We are very grateful to the Tea Rooms and the Swallowfield Parish Council for hosting an AED on behalf of the Community.

We are very pleased to announce that AED’s are now live and covering the community 24 x 7 at the following locations:

• Co-op store in Shinfield
• Beech Hill Memorial Hall
• Victory Hall in Farley Hill

If you wish to know more about the defibrillator being used, watch this small video:

We were very fortunate to receive a £250 cheque from Wokingham Lions to help fund the free courses that we provide for the local community and we thank them very much.

(or on line since there is no longer any Wokingham Times).

We were pleased to see that our achievements were worthy enough to make it into the local on-line newspapers as Get Reading visited us to find out more about our AED campaign and put the story on getreading.co.uk.

Please click HERE to read the story!

The article contains a really nice quote from Peter Sampson the Chairman of Swallowfield Parish Council.

We are extremely pleased and excited to announce that we have been successful in raising the funds to put a minimum of 7 Public Access Automated External Defibrillators (PAD’s) in to the Community as we have now raised in excess of £12,000 to fund their purchase.

We must thank the various supporters who have donated monies to make this happen:

 and the Clifton House Charity,  Johnson Wax Charitable Trust and Englefield Charitable Trust.

Currently they will be deployed at the following sites:

• Swallowfield Parish Hall
• Victory Hall in Farley Hill
• Riseley Tea Rooms
• Memorial Hall in Beech Hill
• The Brand New Co-operative Shop in Shinfield
• Arborfield Village Hall

We are currently trying to finalise sites for the others.

We would like to thank the following Parish Councils for their support and willingness to support this initiative and help the Community:

• Swallowfield Parish Council
• Beech Hill Parish Council
• Arborfield Parish Council

And also the Co-operative Society, for not only funding an AED for us, but also willing to allow one to be placed on the outside of their shop in Shinfield.

On the 21st August Heartstart Swallowfield trained its 200th person!  Given that we only really started in October 2013, we think that this is a tremendous achievement.  Whilst this is indeed a great number, there is still an enourmous amount of people yet to be trained, so please do come along and learn these life saving skills.

We now have a new venue in Riseley – the RSF Tennis Club who have allowed us to use their facility free of charge.

Please help support the first course in Riseley, which is happening on the 7th October.

Steven became our newest Instructor when in July he was officially signed off to deliver the Heartstart Course.  He was handed his certificate in front of the attendees by Stephen Cartwright our Training Supervisor to a round of applause.

On the recent Swallowfield course we were pleased to be able to train Benham who despite his looks was only 14 years old!.  He had contacted us himself as he saw the importance of being trained in Emergency Life Skills and after we had checked with his parents we welcomed him onto the course.  He told us he enjoyed the course and had learned a lot.

Just to remind everyone – we can train 10 years + and there are numerous stories of children / young adults saving lives, so these courses are not just for the “oldies”!

Our youngest trainee so far – 14 years old (that’s the one on the right!)

We are very pleased to announce that we have just added some more dates for our Heartstart Course evenings for people to book on.