Latest News

CONGRATULATIONS to the eleven members who successfully completed the St. John Ambulance First Aid Course. Everyone enjoyed the course which was presented with plenty of humour.  We now have twenty-two qualified First Aiders in the club.  And a big Thank You to Ian, the First Aid instructor,  for making the course so interesting

Despite our best efforts of safety, being careful and looking out for each other, unfortunately on rare occasion, accidents and incidents do happen, when we are all out walking. In an emergency, a very quick dynamic assessment will deduce if we need to call the emergency services, here on the island that will connect us to the emergency joint control room and one of the vital initial pieces of information they require is ‘ What’s your location?’ A number questions now confront us and the quicker we reply with this information, the quicker the correct emergency services can be dispatched.Postcodes, road names, house numbers and a gird reference are all valid options, especially the latter, if the incident is in a remote location but new options of digital applications are now available and are used here on the island by our first response emergency teams. What3Words (been heavy publicised recently) is a downloadable