St John Ambulance Larne Youth

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. 👏🏻👏🏻

22/11/2025

🎄🎅🏼 Christmas came to Larne last night and our cadets were there supporting our adult unit in making sure Santa, his elves and all the good boys and girls of the town were safe and cared for should they need our services.

(Don’t worry we also provide first aid for any naughty boys and girls too, we just know there aren’t any in Larne 😇)

09/11/2025

An amazing turn out for Larne Cadets today showing their respects for the fallen.

07/11/2025

On Tuesday our cadets made poppy decorations for our Remembrance Day window display.

01/11/2025

Mental health is health. Not all wounds are visible, and today our youth leaders teamed up with cadet leaders from Carrickfergus, Newtownabbey and Ballymena to complete a course on Mental Health First Aid. A very informative and worthwhile course on how to help someone in crisis or in need of support during a period of mental ill health.

01/11/2025

18/10/2025

💟 Restart A Heart 2025 💟

Today Larne cadets teamed up with Badgers and Cadets from Carrick, Ballymena and North Belfast to teach members of the public how to do CPR and use an AED should they find someone in cardiac arrest.

They were able to demonstrate just how easy it is for anyone to be a life saver.

14/10/2025

Massive congratulations and well done to Chelsey and Harrison on their promotion to Cadet Corporal. 🫡🫡

We know they will do a great job in their new roles.

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24/09/2025

Last night our cadets continued their first aid training learning about chest pain, specifically angina and heart attacks. They learned what happens in each condition and how to recognise and treat them.
They did a physical demonstration of how the hearts own blood supply can become reduced causing angina pain or completely blocked causing a heart attack.

Our cadets formed up to be a heart and blood and used the corridor to represent a coronary artery. Using beanbags to represent oxygen and nutrients they had to initially pass through the unobstructed artery to pass their oxygen to the heart. Easy! ❤️

We then narrowed the ‘artery’ to represent angina, and asked the cadets to run through to represent the hearts increased need for blood during exercise. The narrowing slowed them down and the heart did not like it! 💙

We then tied them all together and asked them to try and get through the artery as one big clot!
Dani and Craig did their best to hold them back as they tried to squeeze their way through. But our blood supply was cut off and our heart didn’t get enough to keep functioning properly resulting in a heart attack. 🖤

We then finished the session with a lesson on how to perform CPR should someone’s heart stop.

A bit of fun to lighten a serious topic.

20/09/2025

What a day!!!
Our cadets completed a day of learning for their Grand Prior Topic of Ambulance Awareness.
We started at Ballymena Ambulance Station where Paramedic Rachel showed everyone around the station and what a day in the life of a NIAS paramedic entails from start to finish of a typical shift.
We then travelled to Lisburn where Cailean from the air ambulance showed us around their hangar and all about their specialist equipment. We were extremely lucky to be able to watch the helicopter landing after a call out.
After a stop off for lunch we travelled to Belfast and visited NIAS headquarters where (another) Rachel, and Kyle walked us through how to triage an emergency call as it comes in from 999 and how paramedics in ambulance control can help direct people to appropriate services or advise our personnel out on the road. We even got to glimpse into the control room to see the heart of the operation.

A long but brilliant day giving an in depth insight to the range of services our Ambulance service provides and how St John Ambulance fits in to support it.

17/09/2025

We had some cute furry visitors tonight! Skye, Caillie and Munchie from Sniffer Paws NI brought along their handlers to meet the cadets.

They showed us their fabulous skills and let their humans tell us all about how they use scent detection and tracking and trailing as a great way to exercise those noses. They explained how training like this is not only good exercise for the pups but great mental stimulation too. Especially for working dog breeds.

The dogs made 22 new friends last night and we thought Laura, Joanne and Emma were never getting them back! 🤗 Thank you ladies for coming to visit us and showing off the training that you do.

24/08/2025

How it started V’s How it ended! 🤣

A busy busy day for our cadets on duty at the Antrim Coast Half Marathon as they helped man the treatment centre with our adult unit. 🏃🏻🏃🏾‍♀️🏃🏼‍♂️🏃🏻🏃🏾‍♀️🏃🏼‍♂️

Huge thanks to Alison and Billy from North Belfast Cadet Unit who travelled to Larne to help supervise our cadets. Our entire adult unit was on duty today so it was great to get the added help to deploy our cadets into the fray too! ☺️💚