St John Ambulance is deploying volunteers in its largest ever peacetime operation that is set to last months. They are providing volunteers:

- To Emergency Departments across the NHS;

- At the Nightingale Hospitals working alongside the NHS, Army and other volunteers;

- in ambulances to support NHS Ambulance Trusts during the biggest ever sustained demand for their services;

- in many administrative and logistics roles to support those volunteers on the frontline. 

The last time such support was provided to the nation was during World War One and Two. 

When this is over, and it will be, St John Ambulance volunteers will be ready to go back into their communities to provide first aid at fetes,  fayres, rugby matches, and many other community events as well as many other celebrations once the lock down is over. 

Due to the lockdown the main income for St John Ambulance, providing first aid courses and event cover, has been significantly reduced. The CEO, Martin Houghton-Brown, in his evidence to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee said that the Charity requires £450,000 every week and on current finances could only last until August without taking on high interest loans which would have a knock on effect to the services it could provide for the future.

Help St John Ambulance provide volunteers, who are giving their time for free, help the NHS to save lives! Every penny makes a difference.

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