Framlingham Community First Responder Scheme

07/07/2026

Our Team Leader, Leighton was recently invited to a ladies night! The ladies night in question was the Framlingham WI where he gave a presentation on what our group does & how it works as well as a practical demonstration of CPR/Defiub use as well as patient assessment and recovery position! (Many thanks to WI member Wendy Hayward for playing the part of glamorous assistant/patient!)

Leighton thoroughly enjoyed chatting to the group and answering their questions as well as being spoilt with tea & cake!

02/06/2026

01/06/2026

Today marks the start of national volunteer week. Here in Framlingham we are very fortunate to have a large number of voluntary groups and organisations and a large number of volunteers who give their time for free regularly for our wonderful and ever growing community. All deserve recognition this week for time they give to make the community we live in a better place.

Being team leader of our fantastic group of Community First Responders, I'd like to highlight and say thank you to all of our CFR's, past, present & incoming who train each month and undergo various annual assessment to then be able to leap out of the nearest door or window, day or night, to attend emergancy 999 calls to members of our community on what can potentially be the worst day of their life.
Since I first set our group up (we went live on 2nd July 2007) I've had the genuine honour and pleasure of working alongside some truly amazing volunteer CFR's and would like to take this moment to say thank you.

Thank you to our past CFR's, Wendy, Matt, Anna, Steve, Nicky, Jonathan, Gill, Sarah, Debs, Craig, Emily, Diane, Maddie, Janet, Nigel, Mikey, Andy, Sophie, Tony & Jemma, the time all of you have given is always remembered and very much appreciated.

To our past volunteer trainers, Kathryn, Neil, Jemma, Angus & Paul thank you fo the time you gave to make sure we were as well equipped as we could be to deal with whatever we were called to and to our current trainer Angie for helping us keep those skills sharp.

To our current CFR rosta, Mark (who has been with me since our very start in 2007!) Jane (who's been with me almost as long), Dave, Hannah, Jo, Joshua, Clare & Sarah thank you for everything you do to keep our group proving a near 24/7 cover, week in week out for our community, you're all fantastic! And lastly to our newbie in training, Victoria, we're looking forward to having you on the rota with us and are glad the rowdiness of our monthly training sessions hasn't put you off!😀

Working with you guys and gals, doing the work we do, may not be something we get paid for but knowing there are people in our community who are still walking about, fit & healthy, due to our timely intervention is something you really can't put a price on.

If anyone out there reading this is interested in joining us we'd love to hear from you.

Leighton Page
Team Leader