Scottish Ambulance Service Community Resilience

29/09/2025

🫀 Restart a Heart – Learn CPR, Act Fast, Save Lives! 🫀

📍 Perth City Centre
📅 16th October 2025

Do you know how to save a life?
Join us for Restart a Heart Day and learn CPR for FREE! 💪

This is your chance to gain vital, hands-on CPR training from real emergency service professionals — because in a cardiac emergency, every second counts. ❤️

✅ No booking needed
✅ Open to all ages
✅ Takes just a few minutes to learn

👨‍⚕️ Supported by:
🚑 Scottish Ambulance Service
🚨Perth First Responders
🛟 RNLI Lifeboats
👮 Police Scotland Youth Volunteers
❤️ Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland
⛑️ St John Scotland
🏥 Health Defence Scotland
❌St Andrew’s First Aid
…and more!

Come along, bring your friends or family, and help make Perth a community of lifesavers!
🔁 Like, share, and tag someone who should learn CPR!

09/09/2025

999 Day💚

🚑 Today we honour the incredible individuals who step forward in moments of need—not because they have to, but because they choose to. Our volunteer Community Responders are often the first to arrive, offering vital care, calm reassurance, and a lifeline when time is critical. You train hard, stay ready, and respond with compassion and professionalism- often balancing this role alongside your everyday lives. Your contribution is deeply valued, and your presence in our communities brings hope when it’s needed most. To every Community Responder, and all of our 999 colleagues- thank you. Your service is powerful, your impact is lasting, and your generosity speaks volumes 💚

30/08/2025

All set up at Pitlochry town hall. Come along and have a chat to find out more how to get involved.

26/08/2025

16/08/2025

16/08/2025

A huge thank you to the Robert Gordon Paramedic Society for their incredible generosity in donating a Zoll defibrillator to SAS Cardiac Responders.

This life-saving piece of equipment will be carried by our volunteer responders as they attend emergency calls on behalf of the Scottish Ambulance Service.

Even more inspiring, the Society plans to use the remainder of their fundraising efforts to provide public access defibrillators across the community, ensuring that more people have the best possible chance of survival in the event of an Out Of Hospital Cardiac Arrest.

THANK YOU for your generosity 💚🚑

RGU Paramedic Society
Robert Gordon University
Scottish Ambulance Service
Scottish Ambulance Service Community Resilience
Save A Life For Scotland

15/08/2025

🚑 Recently we welcomed a new group of volunteer Community First Responders — and what an exciting start they had!

We were joined by a fantastic local ambulance crew who generously spent their day off to support our training course. They gave our volunteers a hands-on tour of the ambulance and shared invaluable insights into how CFRs can assist at the scene of an emergency before paramedics arrive.

This kind of collaboration is what makes our work so powerful. It’s about building skilled, informed, and confident teams who can make a real difference in their communities. Understanding each others’ roles and expectations helps build stronger teams especially at the scene of an emergency where stress levels may be higher💪🏼

A huge thank you to everyone involved. It’s great seeing the energy, commitment, and teamwork from our volunteers & colleagues 💚

22/07/2025

Come along and join us if you can for World Drowning Prevention Day 2025. We would love to have your help to raise awareness!

Join us on Friday 25 July for a Water Safety Open Day at Loch Lomond Shores as part of World Drowning Prevention Day.

22/07/2025

Are you ?

Join us on a lifesaving mission! We're lighting up our UK map with individuals and organisations who are ready to act when it matters most.

The more points on the map, the easier it is for us to pinpoint areas needing CPR training and support.

If you've completed CPR training in the past 12 months, register as ResusReady today: https://www.resus.org.uk/get-involved/resusready

16/07/2025

Well done, Judy 👏🏼

This , we're sharing a Greatix for Judy Ewer, Community First Responder for Aberfeldy Community First Responder Group from a colleague who wanted to thank her for her incredible commitment. 👏👏👏

Scottish Ambulance Service Community Resilience

14/07/2025

Here is a snapshot of the figures that made up our emergency response last month.

CFRs stands for Community First Responder and this figure includes our Cardiac Responder groups. We are proud to have almost 1,000 volunteer responders across Scotland.

If you are interested in becoming a CFR for your community, find out more: https://www.scottishambulance.com/your-community/community-first-responders/

09/07/2025