Sir Robert McAlpine's Agratas Team

are fundraising for South Western Ambulance Charity Pillow Partner initiative.

A Pillow Partner is a simple training aid used to help safely practice lifesaving CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) skills. You just slip the Pillow Partner over a pillow and follow the simple printed instructions to do CPR. They are particularly attractive to the youngest CPR learners who can use them to demonstrate their new CPR skills to other members of their family (and it is safer to do this on a pillow than on your baby sister or the dog!).

SRM is working with South Western Ambulance Charity to fund thousands of these practical training aids to be distributed as an aide-memoire for people who have had CPR awareness training.

Increased public confidence in CPR skills and access to defibrillators results in more people receiving a life-saving shock as quickly as possible, giving them the best possible chance of survival.

Please support us to help save lives.

Each year the South Western Ambulance Service attends more than 3,600 patients who have had a cardiac arrest. Once in cardiac arrest, for every minute that passes a person loses a further 10% chance of survival.

When someone has a cardiac arrest, the heart stops and blood is no longer being pumped around their body. The longer they go without emergency life-support, the harder it is to restart their heart.