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Mourne Community First Responders

  • Status

    Received: on time

  • Income

    £30.6K

  • Spending

    £24.5K

  • Charity no. 108853
  • Date registered. 23/01/2023

Public benefits

The public benefit that flows from our purpose is the provision of assistance to the Ambulance Service in life-saving intervention. The benefit is demonstrated through the number of callouts we respond to. Is there any harm arising from any of the purposes? No harm will necessarily or intentionally result from any life-saving intervention.

Incidental harm may arise if a patient’s ribs are cracked during external cardiac pressure. However, this is a well recognized unintentional clinical outcome. The beneficiaries are anyone in the Mournes area who is having a medical emergency as laid down by the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service as appropriate for assistance by a trained Community First Responder. There is no private benefit flowing from any of the purposes.

What your organisation does

We will recruit, co-ordinate and equip local volunteers who will be trained and alerted by the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service to assess and provide an appropriate intervention to those with life threatening medical emergencies in their localities. They will provide, as appropriate, resuscitation including use of a defibrillator, care and

support pending the arrival of an emergency ambulance, which will be dispatched simultaneously with the first responders.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of health or the saving of lives

Who the charity helps

  • General public
  • Voluntary and community sector

How the charity works

  • Education/training
  • General charitable purposes
  • Medical/health/sickness
  • Volunteer development

Charitable purposes

The purposes are: To set up and operate a volunteer-led Community First Responder Scheme. To provide life-saving care to people with any of a range of medical emergencies, as laid down from time to time by the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service, in our community, pending the arrival of the Ambulance Service. To recruit, co-ordinate and equip local volunteers who will be trained and alerted by the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service to assess and provide an appropriate intervention to those with appropriate medical emergencies, in their localities. To provide, as appropriate, resuscitation including use of a defibrillator, care and support pending the arrival of an Emergency Ambulance, which will be dispatched simultaneously with the First Responders.

Governing document

Constitution

Other name

  • 5 Trustees
  • 0 Employees
  • 29 Volunteers

Trustee board

  • Mrs Helene Grant
  • Roisin Ni Ruanaidh
  • Mrs Colette Sloan
  • Mrs Martina Mcgivern
  • Mrs Mary Cox

Contact details

Public Address

Mrs Helene Grant, 11 Livins Road, Attical, Kilkeel, Co/Down, BT34 4HS

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