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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£36.3K
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Spending
£37.0K
Public benefits
Purpose 1 The Cormac Trust benefits members of the general public and young people by continuing to provide services which raise awareness about the fatal and non-fatal heart conditions in young people. Purpose 2 The services provided have allowed young people to be screen tested for any undetected heart conditions, while also allowing members of
the general public to be trained in the use of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) to be used in the case of any emergency. Purpose 3 The Cormac Trust has also benefited members of the local health service by continuing to provide education and information as to the importance of providing facilities for the screening of young people and the use of the AEDs in the community. Purpose 4 Many lives have been saved throughout Ireland during the last decade as a direct or indirect result of the work of The Cormac Trust and similar organisations. We cannot quantify how many people might have died otherwise, but at least a dozen people have been saved by the use of AEDs provided by The Cormac Trust since 2010. These benefits are demonstrated through the large number of defibrillators donated to sports’ clubs, schools, community centres, voluntary ambulances, fire stations, lifeboats, Queens’s University, Celtic Park Derry, and various public places; number of CPR and defibrillator training sessions which we have administered; increased level of awareness of the importance of defibrillators and training generally, leading to an increase in the number of defibrillators installed in many different public places, and some of these defibrillators have been used to save the lives of a number of people, some of whom have testified publicly at their own instigation, of their gratitude to the Cormac Trust for raising this awareness; number of media interviews on radio, television, newspapers and other media, as well as our website and Facebook and Twitter accounts; great improvement in the availability and type of screening for SADS in the past number of years in Belfast and Dublin. There is no harm and no private benefit from our purposes. Our beneficiaries are members of the general public, in particular young people.
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The Cormac Trust have provided numerous services to meet the objectives of the organisation: - Making defibrillators available in local communities. The Cormac Trust has provided approximately 200 AEDs across Northern Ireland to local Gaelic Sports Clubs, Rugby Clubs, Soccer Clubs and Golf Clubs, as well as schools, fire brigades, leisure centres,
lifeboat services and other local community facilities. - Training communities in CPR and the use of AEDs. The Cormac trust has trained over 1000 members of the general public in CPR and the use of defibrillators. - Raising awareness of sudden cardiac death in young people (SADs). The Cormac Trust continues to spread awareness of SADs by providing information on radio, TV, newspapers and online through the Cormac Trust website. - Promoting screening for SADs. The Cormac Trust continue to provide information and guidance to sports clubs, schools and similar organisations while also working with Health Providers to ensure the provision of affordable screening for all the youth.
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- The advancement of health or the saving of lives
Who the charity helps
- General public
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Education/training
- Medical/health/sickness
