St John Ambulance Wirral

17/06/2026

St John Wirral, along with our North Sefton colleague and a Master Mason Treatment Centre, in conjunction colleagues from Merseyside Police and Wirral Council were at the Beach and Cubbins Green in West Kirby for Operation Stay Safe, helping to ensure the school leavers enjoyed their last day celebrations safely.

17/06/2026

Meet Paul, who is one of our fantastic Youth Leaders. He has participated in the Wirral Coastal walk every year for the last 17 or 18 years, several of which he has taken young people along the route with him to help raise awareness and money for our organisation. Thank you for your efforts Paul- your dedication is much appreciated.

16/06/2026

Defib’s are a vital piece of equipment and can be the difference in helping someone in a cardiac arrest,

Please check they are working properly. Follow the link below if you have any questions.

Defibrillators can save lives, but only if they’re working.

This Check Your Defib Week (15-21 June) we’re encouraging all Defib Guardians to help save more lives by ensuring their device is rescue-ready and accurately listed on The Circuit.

Learn more on the RCUK website: resus.org.uk/check-your-defib

14/06/2026

Wirral St John Ambulance Volunteer Trainer/ Assessors and Demonstrators as part of Merseyside’s training team helped teach the new class of Community First Aiders across this weekend, that will be coming to an Event near you soon, with five new First Aiders for the Wirral Network, well done to you all 👏

14/06/2026

St John Ambulance Wirral were out and about this Sunday supporting the Wirral Bikeathon, by the amazing people from the The UTS Foundation and Underground Training Station that took place at Arrowe Country Park. The volunteers were on hand to ensure that any participants or spectators that should require any assistance were well
looked after.

The Bikeathon offered two distances to accommodate different ages and cycling abilities, 13 or 26 miles, with both routes taking the cyclists through the Wirral’s countryside and along the Coastline, raising crucial funds for cancer patients through the UTS Foundation.

07/06/2026

Today brings a very busy Volunteer week to an end for St John Ambulance Wirral, and on this breezy and thankfully mostly rain free Sunday, along with North Sefton Network, we were out and about again for the 40th Annual Wirral 20K Coastal Walk, with people raising money for their chosen charities. The route goes from New Brighton to Thurstaton and long the Wirral way, with teams dotted along route and Andy as always getting lots of attention at the Kings Gap 12K Finish point.

06/06/2026

For part two of Saturday, we spent the evening at Birkenhead Park for the first Water Lantern Festival and was one of three taking place today with others in Toledo, Ohio and Buenos Aires, Argentina. This included live music and more food options. This was a very chilled event with a picnic type atmosphere while people came together to chat, share there stories and make their personalised water lanterns which were later released in a moving moment down at the Lower Lake by the Roman Boathouse in Birkenhead park. The lake was designed by Joseph Paxton and was made to feel endless with its winding edges. The lanterns looked amazing in the dark filling the water with their light and personal messages of hope and Remembrance.

06/06/2026

A busy Saturday for the volunteers at St John Ambulance Wirral, we started the afternoon at Barnston Primary School Fun Day which had inflatable obstacle courses, beat the goalie, a talent show to name a few and many food and cake options, including some very nice pizza. We also had the opportunity to meet some owls including a lovely white barn owl with one of the volunteers.

05/06/2026

As Volunteer week continues into the weekend the team at St John Ambulance Wirral will be very busy covering multiple events across the Wirral, quite literally, we will be at Barnston Primary School Summer Fair Saturday Afternoon, then at Birkenhead Park for the first Water Lantern Festival Saturday Night and then covering the 40th annual Wirral 20K Coastal Walk from New Brighton to Thurstaton on Sunday with teams dotted along the route, remember to stay hydrated and do give is a wave or say hi as you pass and of course can even get a selfie with Andy!

03/06/2026

Happy Volunteers week from St John Ambulance Wirral. We thank all people that give up their time to help others no matter what role or organisation you give your time to help.

Here at St John Wirral, we help clinically at events, though you do not need to be ill or injured to need help or support, we are there for anyone who needs assistance.

We deliver talks and first aid sessions to organisations and groups to ensure that first aid knowledge is available to all, and that no-one should suffer for the lack of first aid knowledge.

St John also has young people with Badgers from age 5 till 9 and Cadets from 10 till 17, who learn life skills and first aid, supported by adult youth leaders.

There are also multiple other roles within St John, supporting people in many ways from recruitment, to training, from communications to logistics, from Priory to Fellowship, we are all there to support each other.

A huge thank you to you all 👏