Eccleshall Community First Responders (CFR’s) are a group of volunteers trained by West Midlands Ambulance to a nationally recognised level and provide life saving treatment to people in their local communities.
We respond to 999 calls in the local area and give medical aid until the Ambulance Service arrive on scene. Our goal is to help save lives within our community by providing immediate life support to those in need.
We receive no funding from central sources and rely entirely on donations and fund raising in order to provide the service to our communities. The volunteer responders give their time for operations and training freely. The money that we need for day to day running costs as well as the purchase of equipment, uniforms and a vehicle has to be raised through fundraising events or public or private donations.
On the 2nd June 2017, Eccleshall CFR’s were awarded the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service.
The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service is the highest award given to local volunteer groups across the UK to recognise outstanding work done in their own communities. It was created in 2002 to celebrate the anniversary of The Queen’s coronation.
This award is the equivalent of the MBE for voluntary groups and has been awarded for their work in “Providing emergency medical aid, training and lifesaving equipment to those living and working in the local community”
Find out more about what it is we do, how we do it, and meet some of the team responsible for providing this essential community service
Find out the many ways in which you can help us continue to provide this essential service to the community by giving us some of your time
We’d love to hear from you, and there are a variety of ways to get in touch with us. Please remember that in emergencies you should call 999 or 111.
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Read MoreAt the recent funeral of Johnny (JJ) Johnson the family asked that, instead of flowers, donations be made to Eccleshall Community First Responders and to the Air Ambulance. These schemes were dear to JJs heart as, in his role as a Staffordshire Ambulance paramedic, he was involved in the setting up of both. It is with grateful thanks to JJ's family, the Responders have received a cheque for the fantastic amount of £660 and it has been decided with the their agreement that the money will be used for the provision of another community defib dedicated to JJ's memory. We are working with Stafford and Rural Homes to try to locate this somewhere on the Burgage. Watch this space for further details. Picture shows members of Eccleshall CFRs receiving the cheque from JJ's wife, Sheila.
At the recent funeral of Johnny (JJ) Johnson the family asked that, instead of flowers, donations be made to Eccleshall Community First Responders and to the Air Ambulance. These schemes were dear to JJs heart as, in his role as a Staffordshire Ambulance paramedic, he was involved in the setting up of both. It is with grateful thanks to JJ's family, the Responders have received a cheque for the fantastic amount of £660 and it has been decided with the their agreement that the money will be used for the provision of another community defib dedicated to JJ's memory. We are working with Stafford and Rural Homes to try to locate this somewhere on the Burgage. Watch this space for further details. Picture shows members of Eccleshall CFRs receiving the cheque from JJ's wife, Sheila.