First aid drive gets £5k boost
A CHARITY’S youth campaign to teach vital first aid skills to secondary school pupils has received a £5000 boost.
St Andrew’s First Aid has received funding from the Santander Foundation to further fund its BandAge Project for young people, helping to secure its continuation into 2018.
BandAge was launched in January 2015 with the ambition to deliv- er first aid training and peer facilitation programmes to school pupils in deprived and disadvantaged areas of Scotland.
The project provides participants with a formal first aid qualification and enables pupils to take part in peer facilitation workshops.
These workshops provide them with key life and employability skills.
They become equipped with the skills and confidence to cascade the knowledge they have learnt to younger pupils.
Kirsty Smith, Senior Fundraiser at St Andrew’s First Aid, said: “The support from the Santander Foundation ensures we can purchase the materials needed to continue running BandAge in schools and to continue making a long lasting, positive difference to the young people we work with.”