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Many of us like to get the blood flowing by doing something a bit out of the ordinary.  On Saturday 25^th September a group of people who help in their local communities and are members of St John Ambulance abseiled down the tower at Guildford Cathedral, together with supporters, to raise money to buy equipment.

Firstly let me explain what it is that we all do.  We are called St John Ambulance Community First Responders and we work with the ambulance service in our local communities to provide a quick response to someone who is suffering from a potentially life threatening incident.  We are tasked by the ambulance service to go to patients who may be having a heart attack, difficulty in breathing or other problem and carryout initial life saving until the ambulance arrives.  The proven concept behind this is that in particular with a heart attack or cardiac arrest the sooner treatment starts the higher the chances of success and recovery.  In the last four years St John Ambulance CFRs in Surrey have attended over 60 cases involving a cardiac arrest and have managed to successfully resuscitate 21 of these.  Since 2006, when St John in Surrey introduced responders, we have attended over 1900 patients and helped them through their suffering to recovery.

But all of this costs money not on administration but on equipment.  To provide a responder with a full set of equipment costs nearly £3000, to provide responders with appropriate clothing is £100 per responder and training equipment costs us over £2000.  None of these are small amounts.

Please help us by sponsoring me on this crazy day.

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Many thanks