Queens Park is, surprisingly, part of what London Ambulance Service (LAS) calls 'defibrillator deserts.'

You might be very surprised - or shocked - to know that no-one living near the park in Queens Park (or visiting) - has access to a 24/7 available debrillator for the person, you or old, who has stopped breathing?

These machines can improve survival chances by 70% but currently you'd have to rely on the park to be open and the parkies to get theirs from inside their building by the zoo.

It'd almost certainly take too long/be too late?

Alternatively you need Salusbury school, Lonsdale Medical Centre, Queens Park train station, or a gym to be OPEN and get back to the person who stopped breathing in time.

You can see local coverage at www.defibfinder.uk and the wider local campaign at bit.ly/savelocallives.

WHAT CAN I DO?

Help spread the word please! and consider donating £10?

Kensal Rise Library has a campaign to raise £20,000 to fund EIGHT 24/7 machines across our area.

For the Milman defib we 'only' need 125 people to donate £10 (and add Gift Aid) and we will have half the money......

YOUR MONEY WILL BE DOUBLED BY AKOYA!

Akoya have generously said they will commit the other £1,250 if our community can raise the first £1,250!!!

WHERE WILL THE MACHINES GO?

Subject to City of London Corp preference this defib would go at either

- the Milman central entrance to Queens Park

- inside the unused/locked-up red telephone box on Harvist Rd corner with Milman, giving it a spruce up and very important new life.

NOTE: there is a separate JustGiving page for a defib at the Kingswood side of the park, defibs for Salusbury Rd and Lonsdale Rd, and at the Maqam on Wrentham Ave. Plus one in9 Carlton Vale & outside Kensal Rise Library.

MORE ABOUT DEFIBS

Each year in London around 10,000 people are struck by sudden cardiac arrest outside of hospital environments.

They can affect anyone at any time -- from young children at school to adults when they're at home, work or in public places. If victims aren't treated properly, more often than not, cardiac arrests are fatal.

That's why it's so important to have defibrillators that provide high-energy electric shocks to the heart in as many public places as possible - if a defib is used within 3-5 minutes of cardiac arrest, survival rates jump from 6 to 74 percent.