Photo on opposite page: © Dr Shaheen Ahmed/BRC. Photos on this page: © Matthew Per First aid education We train around 370,000 people in first aid in the UK every year, preparing them to cope with accidents and emergencies in the home, at work or out and about. Our volunteers also provide first aid cover at thousands of public events across the country. Key facts cival/BRC, © Jonathan Banks, © Justin Grainge/BRC. > 90 per cent of people who take > 30,000 people are given first aid our first aid courses feel more at public events by our volunteers confident in using first aid skills. each year. > 76 per cent are more willing to > More than 300,000 people have use those skills in an emergency. downloaded our first aid app for smartphones. > Around 61,000 of the people we train each year are from, or work with, vulnerable groups. When Sayma’s three-year-old daughter started choking and couldn’t breathe, the young mother was terrified – but her Red Cr oss first aid training kicked in. She started to slap her daughter on the back until she was breathing again. She said: “Thank goodness I had completed the Red Cross first aid course, as the knowledge was still fresh in my mind. I just stopped panicking and in less than a minute she was okay again.” Sayma is just one of many people each year who use first aid training provided by the Red Cross to save lives – often helping friends or family. redcross.org.uk/firstaid