Manor Park Primary School X The Paul Alan Project
Thank you for working with us to save more lives in Greater London!
Your generosity and support will make a vital difference by helping us to fund more accessible defibrillators and bleed control kits, like you can see in the video, to help save lives during medical emergencies, whilst you are waiting for an ambulance to arrive on scene.
Anybody can use a defibrillator to help in the case of a cardiac arrest (a cardiac arrest is when a heart suddenly stops beating) and a bleed kit to help someone who is heavily bleeding.
A defibrillator is a special machine that helps somebody's heart to start beating again by providing jolts of electrical energy to help it.
A bleed control kit is a like a First Aid kit - it has special bandages and plasters in it to help somebody who has cut themselves very badly.
You do not need to be trained to use either - the power to save a life is in all of our hands! When you call 999 in an emergency, the operator (the person who answers the phone) will tell you exactly what to do and will stay on the phone with you until help arrives.
If you are able to, please make a donation, starting from just £1, below. If everyone who visited this page was able to donate £1, we'd be able to fund so much!
About us
We are a local, Sutton based charity who are committed to increasing cardiac arrest survival rates by:
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installing accessible defibrillators in public spaces - those that are available 24/7; not locked behind closed doors where they can't save lives after the buildings they're housed in, close
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training people in basic life support skills for free; ensuring accessibility to all - we passionately believe that cost should never be a barrier for people to learn how to save lives and that it should be a skill for ALL. We train children and adults.
Why we do what we do
Founder, Clare, was by her Dad's side at a football match at Craven Cottage (Fulham FC) on 29 January 2022 when he suddenly collapsed and subsequently died from a cardiac arrest. Out of the thousands of people sitting around them, only 1 person knew how to recognise a cardiac arrest and perform basic life support skills to try to save his life, whilst waiting for the professional medics to come.
After that horrific day, Clare quickly realised that the reason not nearly enough people know how to save a life is because basic life support training is incredibly expensive and therefore inaccessible to most people.
The Paul Alan Project, set up in Clare's Dad's name, was founded to train people in life saving skills and give them the equipment to do so with accessible defibrillators in public spaces, where they are needed most.
The charity also include a bleed control kit in all of their defibrillator cabinets to help sustain life in the event of a catastrophic bleed - it just makes sense to make lifesaving equipment as available and accessible as possible!
A picture of Clare's Dad is on all of their defibrillator cabinets so he continues to look after everybody even though he isn't here with us now. He loved looking after everyone and helping people, whether he knew them or not. It is the best legacy for such a kind man.
Make a donation; make a vital difference.
All funds raised will help another community become emergency safe - thank you for your generosity!
£1,120 raised
13 donations
51 days left!
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Amount
Every pound counts - please give what you can afford!
£1
Covers the cost of running the defibrillator cabinet for 1 year
£5
Pays for an AED prep kit
£10
Pays for replacement parts for training manikins (new lungs etc)
£20
Pays for new defibrillator pads
£50
Pays for a bleed control kit
£100
Pays for a replacement defibrillator battery
£150
Pays for an electrician to install our defibrillator cabinet
£200
Pays for a defibrillator cabinet
£450
Pays for a defibrillator
£750
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