Felixstowe Community First Responders

26/08/2025

Calling all Felixstowe companies and businesses...

Are your staff prepared to deal with a serious medical incident like a cardiac arrest at your location or at home, would you like the Felixstowe Community First Responders to come to your premises and teach your staff life saving skills.

We are offering to come to your premises and teach the staff (up to 10 at a time ) CPR and Defibrillator awareness, as well as ways to deal with other life threatening issues.

The course will be approx 2 hours long and we just need a room with a TV or way of presenting the information as well as a bit of open space for the people to practice CPR.
The cost to your business is zero as we are offering our time and knowledge for free, you just need to give your staff a few hours off.

Please message us if you are interested in this training.

For businesses that don't have the option to host us, we are looking to get a hall soon and have bookable sessions for your staff, and we will post on here with that information once it's set up.

15/08/2025

Today we have been teaching CPR and defib awareness are the family fun day at Martello Park Felixstowe
We also met up with representatives of Manup? a men's Mental Health charity

01/08/2025

Last night we were presented with an amazing cheque from the Felixstowe Tuesday Darts League for £1000.
This will help us keep attending Emergency calls on Felixstowe and the surrounding areas on behalf of the East Of England Ambulance Service.
A heart felt thanks goes to the all the darts players who helped raise this money.

09/06/2025

Many thanks to the Felixstowe Probus 2 Club for the very generous donation of £250 towards our running costs.

05/06/2025

This week is National Volunteers week.

As your local Community First Responders, we thought we would let you know what we have been up to this year.

We have been tasked to and attended 134 calls, for the East Of England Ambulance Service 🚑
93 of these calls were Category 2 calls (Medical Emergencies)
41 of these calls were Category 1 calls (Life Threatening Emergencies)
We were First on Scene for 90 of these calls

The types of calls we have attended have included the following (Top 5 types of Incidents)
Breathing Problems
Falls
Cardiac Arrests
Convulsions/Fittings
Chest Pain

All these calls have been in Felixstowe and the surrounding villages, all done by volunteers who give their time freely, and use their own vehicles to attend these jobs.

03/06/2025

Volunteer community first responders are a vital part of our service, responding to emergencies in their local area and in many instances, arriving first on scene to provide life-saving support until ambulance crews arrive.

Let’s have a look at some stats about our CFRs and CFR groups across the east of England 👇

14/05/2025

Enjoying the sun at Felixstowe Truck Stop after checking drivers blood pressure and offering advise where needed.

Abbey Road we are not..... Truck Stop Hero's maybe

Thanks guys for coming in and checking our drivers BP

East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust

14/03/2025

What an amazing group of people.

11/02/2025

This evening we have been at the truck stop, giving drivers the chance to have their blood pressure checked.

31/12/2024

As many of you know the Felixstowe section of the Pop Chorus choir, has been raising funds for us this year with Concerts, Quiz's, Sponsored Walks and Swims in fact any way they could think of they did it.
This amazing group of people have raised over £10,000 for us, we will use this money to get additional kit, training aids, and also some additional uniform items for the wet weather.
The whole of our team is so thankful, and cannot believe the amount raised (the original goal was £1,000) and we will be arranging a meeting with the choir soon to thank them all in person, but in the meantime we wish all the singers and their supporters a very Happy New Year, and that they have a great 2025.

31/12/2024

Well its nearly the end of 2024, as a group we were tasked this year by the East of England Ambulance Service to over 260 calls in Felixstowe and the surrounding area, the main categories being, Breathing Problems, Chest Pain, Convulsions/Fitting, Unconscious/Fitting and Cardiac arrests.

The team would like to wish all our followers and supporters a Happy New Year, and we will try to be there if you need us in 2025.

22/11/2024

Had a fabulous evening in the company of Pop Chorus at their "Constellation" concert in Felixstowe, a packed venue enjoyed amazing songs and narrative, as part of their year of raising funds for us.