St John Ambulance Larne Youth

18/04/2026

11/04/2026

Out on duty at the freezing finish line of Larne Athletic Club’s 10 mile race.

08/04/2026

Supporting our adult unit providing first aid cover at Inver Park for Larne FC.

27/03/2026

Dani and Amelia made their service debut tonight assisting our adult unit to provide emergency responder cover at Larne Rugby Club for the Under 12’s. Hopefully they get warmed up again before the next duty! 🏉🥶❄️

25/03/2026

What better way to finish the term before our Easter break than all out war! 🛸🔫

Laser Tag was brilliant fun and we definitely built up our appetite for pizza!

Huge ‘Thank You’ to Deborah’s Green Drive Minimart for the generosity of your staff and customers for sponsoring our social night. Our cadets work hard throughout the year so it’s great to be able to give them a treat which couldn’t have happened without your support. 👏🏻

Have a happy Easter everyone. 🐣

18/03/2026

☘️ The Larne Leprechauns! ☘️

A night of games, crafting and shenanigans for our St Patrick’s nights training.

And 6 of our cadets even managed to complete their Grand Prior Topic of Event Cover meaning that’s 6 brand new cadet first aiders ready for duty 🤩👏🏻

10/03/2026

⛑️ Major Incident Declared in Larne Cadet Unit Tonight!

💥 A cataclysmic catastrophe caused carnage for our cadets.

☎️Only Logan,Dani and Craig had avoided the disaster so were able to declare the Major incident and give all the vital information to ambulance control by way of a METHANE report.

🚩They then got busy triaging all the casualties into order of priority for responding medics to treat using the Ten Second Triage protocol.

This exercise was all part of our learning about providing Event Cover. Another step closer for our newer members getting out on first aid duties.

21/02/2026

Well done to our team of cadets who travelled to Coleraine to compete in the District First Aid competitions today. They did brilliantly and we couldn’t be prouder. 🤩
Amelia spent the day volunteering as a casualty for the competitors and I’m sure she took notes for when she joins the team in the future.

Super congratulations to Dani who took home First place in the individual novice category. 🏆

19/02/2026

Well done to all cadets in attendance which included our own Cadet Corporal Gent. 👏🏻

A fantastic weekend at Crawfordsburn Activity Centre!

Well done to the 16 cadets from across Northern Ireland who completed their Young Leaders Level 2 course this weekend. The programme was busy and challenging, but everyone demonstrated great enthusiasm, teamwork, and commitment throughout.

A huge thank you to our dedicated Youth Team volunteers who gave up their time and energy to deliver the course. Your commitment, enthusiasm, and support made the weekend such a success.

Congratulations to all involved 👏🚑

03/02/2026

Cadet Corporals Take Over!
(A better heading than: Youth Leaders Sit And Drink Tea All Night!) 🤫☕️

Tonight our NCO’s were in charge! Over the last couple of weeks our team of corporals had planned, risk assessed, and designed a full nights training in casualty simulation. Tonight they conducted the training, passing on their skill to our younger and newer cadets of how to make up various fake wounds.
They did a great job as you can see!
Their night ran so smoothly and efficiently they even had time to run a few games when the blood and gore was all washed off.

Well done young leaders 👏🏻
And great job to the cadets who produced some realistic looking injuries. 🩸 😱🩸

23/01/2026

🌟Larne Cadet Is A Lifesaver🌟

At the start of the new year we were contacted by the parents of one of our cadets, Harrison, who wanted to inform us of an incident which happened at home that could have ended in tragedy had it not been for the quick thinking and skill displayed by their son.

Harrison and his siblings were upstairs at home when his youngest sister Elodie began to choke on a sweet. He recognised the signs and quickly ascertained that she was unable to dislodge the sweet herself. Her airway was completely obstructed and she was turning purple. Without hesitation he jumped into action knowing EXACTLY what to do.

He started giving Elodie up to 5 back slaps as he shouted on his parents down stairs.

Realising they had not been effective to clear the obstruction he started performing abdominal thrusts. His step-dad ran into the room just as the second abdominal thrust forced the sweet out of her airway and Elodie took a much needed gasp of air.

Harrison’s family and our youth training team are incredibly proud of the calm confidence with which he jumped into action providing efficient and effective emergency treatment for what was undoubtedly a frightening and potentially life threatening situation.

We are so glad Elodie is ok and I’m sure she has offered to do some of Harrison’s chores for at least the next month 🤣

‼️ In situations like this…

❓Would your child know what to do?

❓Would you?

💚 Learn how to save a life.
💚 Join St John Ambulance.

23/11/2025

🤩 Celebrating Achievement 🤩

It’s wonderful to see our young people throwing themselves into new situations and developing their skills.

🫡 Dani completed a residential Young Leaders Level One course which puts his first foot onto the pathway to promotion.

🏆 Harrison competed in the Junior Category of the District Cadet Of the Year competition placing First. A competition involving first aid assessment, group work, and presentation delivery.

We are so proud of them both. 👏🏻👏🏻