Going out isn’t just about having a good time, but also about staying safe.

Tonight sees one of our volunteer First Responder teams out in Inverness city centre keeping the public safe, ensuring everyone has a good night and responding to any medical emergencies or any assistance we can give. Working in collaberation with the door security staff, police and Inverness CCTV.

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Emergencies mean different things to different people. Pet owners know that pets are family.

One of our volunteers was asked to assist with the search for a family pet who had got lost whilst walking up in a mountain near Cluanie Inn. A drone was used to search along some of the paths and inside a deer fence in case they were stuck inside of it.

Unfortunately, so far, there has been no sign. We hope they will be found soon.  

Another regular event for our volunteers though a bit further from home than normal. Our team were out in Angus providing event medical cover at Ride the North.

Using vehicles, the teams shadowed riders over the course, responding to any incidents or calls for assistance on the route.

Starting and finishing in Arbroath the cyclists did a 100mile route, Extra reserach into treatment of saddle sores may have been required!

August seen our volunteers provide medical cover at the Ross-shire EGS Laminitis fun show at Sheep Park on the Black Isle.  If your roses need fed, this is the place to be!  

Much of what we do is through delivery of first aid or first responder services at event. We provide certified training for volunteers and development training to ensure your skills are up to date and you not just qualified but competent to be there to help others when they need it most. 

Volunteering can be fun, sociable and rewarding. All equipment is provided and expenses are paid to ensure there is no financial barrier from volunteering. Drop us a message if you are interested.

 A fun filled day providing medical cover at Moy Country Fair, a great family event.

Guns, axe throwing and flying BMX, what could possibly go wrong!  Another regular event that many of our volunteers have attended for years.

July brought our favourite event of the year, Belladrum Tartan Heart festival.

A 4 day festival providing first aid along with partner agencies, it provides both experience and a variety of challenges to both seasoned volunteers as well as to our newer ones. Especially memorable if you have never experienced festival toilets before! Some brave volunteers camped on site to save the daily traffic queues.

Thanks to Aurora Energy Services for the free loan of an ATV. This allows us to quickly get to any casualty within the site to provide medical assistance. 

Our team are currently looking for new volunteers to increase our capacity across Northern Scotland.

If you are looking to develop new skills, meet like minded people and help others whilst enjoying local events and being part of a great team then we could be what you are looking for!

We provide event medical services and incident support with a team of highly trained (and externally certified) responders who deliver a high level of service whatever we are involved in.

Currently we are looking to increase our capacity in:

Comms support - Volunteers capable of providing communications support to the team and other agencies through utilisation of our radio and communications systems. Full training will be provided which will include deployment, radio communications and digital systems use.

Event Team volunteers - Much of what we do is through delivery of first aid or first responder services at event. We provide certified training for volunteers and development training to ensure your skills are up to date and you not just qualified but competent to be there to help others when they need it most. 

Volunteering can be fun, sociable and rewarding. All equipment is provided and expenses are paid to ensure there is no financial barrier from volunteering.

Please get in touch to let us know if you fancy joining the team.

Thanks to a donation from Omniscot, an Inverness and Dingwall based IT company, we have been able to provide another volunteer with one of our Response Kits.

These kits are used by our teams to provide aid to others predominantly at events held within the highlands.  When not at events, kits are kept by our volunteers so they can provide assistance to others they come across who may be injured or unwell.

It’s great to be able to provide another of these lifesaving kits to our volunteers who give up huge amounts of time to maintain skills, through certified courses and exercises, delivering services at events, and helping others during other times.

Donations are an important way for the team to gather income and develop capability. Previous donations have been used to help purchase everything from kits to workwear (St John Scotland), a team vehicle and radio systems (SSEN).

If you wish to donate and help us develop our team and help others please click on the link on our homepage.

Something new for the team this year was providing event cover to the World Stone Skimming Championships.

A 2 man team attended the event taking all required first response equipment over on the islands passenger ferry.  And braving the elements whilst enjoying this small but well attended event with people attending from a far away as Australia.

No podium finishes for our representative but a fun event in a rather different environment!

Storm Otto provided the first official tasking of the teams newest asset.

The team were requested to support SSEN by providing welfare checks to almost 100 households within Aberdeenshire.

The households were all registered on the Priority Services Register which is utilised during times of extended power outages.

The vehicle was part funded through the SSEN Communities Resilience Fund and it was great that the team get out to provide the support when it was needed.

If you want to find out more about what we do have a look at our website and get in touch if you are thinking about joining our team.

Our volunteers have started the year covering gigs in Inverurie and Banchory for Western Isles band Peat & Diesel!

Although based in the Highlands, our team provides cover across Northern Scotland delivering the highest quality care whenever it’s needed by those attending our clients events. 

These skills are also put to use when in our communities with over a third of volunteers available to respond to local and national incidents.

If you fancy joining our team have a look at the website and get in touch.

Our team consists of volunteers who provide various different roles. Dave is one of our team of trainers who today was due to deliver an Emergency Oxygen course for one of our clients in Kyle of Lochalsh.  

Unusually Dave had to delay the course start due to being activated by the ambulance service as a first responder to an emergency call in his local community.

Over half of our regular volunteers are kitted with defibrillators and emergency equipment so they can be deployed in an emergency within their community or across the highlands.

To find out more about our team look through our website..