Penicuik Community First Responders

07/02/2026

More Than Match Fit: 344 Players Now Life-Saving Ready!

What a very busy two weeks for Penicuik Community First Responders!

We’re absolutely delighted to have trained an amazing 344 young people from Penicuik Athletic Youth Football Club across 12 Emergency Basic Life Support sessions. The enthusiasm, engagement, and commitment shown throughout has been fantastic!

A huge thank you to everyone who supported and helped deliver these sessions — your time and effort truly make a difference in building a safer, more confident community.

And a very special thank you to F Fiona Hall, whose months of careful planning and coordination ensured the training programme ran seamlessly and successfully. Your hard work has made a lasting impact!

Here’s to continuing empowering our community with lifesaving skills!

https://gofund.me/86e3bccf6

Scottish Ambulance Service Community First Responders Scotland Penicuik Residents

12/11/2025

What a night!

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate 20 years of Penicuik Community First Responders past and present members, Penicuik Rugby,colleagues from the Scottish Ambulance Service, and our many distinguished guests. It was fantastic to see so many familiar faces and share memories from across the years.

The photos and statistics say it all. Friendship, teamwork, and a shared commitment to helping others. Looking back over the last two decades, we’re incredibly proud of what’s been achieved:

Thousands of emergency calls attended
Countless hours volunteered, all from a self-funded, community driven team

https://www.penicuikcfr.com/l/20th-year-celebrations/

Here’s to everyone who’s played a part in the journey so far and to the next 20 years of responding, supporting, and saving lives in our community.

Please help fund the next 20 years by visiting our GoFundMe Page.
https://gofund.me/2fa561432

Penicuik Residents

01/11/2025

Happy birthday to us 🥳.
20 years ago today PCFRs began. Congratulations to all past and present PCFRs

30/10/2025

https://www.penicuikcfr.com/l/brownies-earn-extra-brownie-points-learning-life-saving-skills/

This week, Penicuik Brownies members, aged between 7 and 10 years old, took their first steps towards becoming real-life superheroes! Penicuik Community First Responders (PCFR) visited the group to teach vital life-saving skills, and there was plenty of laughter, learning, and a few very large soft....

16/10/2025

***UPDATE***

The Public Access Defibrillator at Shottstown Miners is now back in its cabinet and in full working order. The PCFR Team 🙂

13/10/2025

*** PUBLIC ACCESS DEFIBRILLATOR- SHOTTSTOWN MINERS***

The PAD at Shottstown Miners is temporarily unavailable. We hope to have this back in place very soon. Should you require a PAD, the nearest available one is situated at Penicuik Rugby Football Club in the Public Park. Thank you. The PCFR Team

10/10/2025

Fun Fact….

Over 70 people have volunteered as PCFRs since we started 20 years ago 😯

10/10/2025

Did we mention it’s our 20th birthday this month 🥳

12/09/2025

Did you know…🤔
Since PCFRs started 20 years ago, we have attended 3495 patients to date 😮. Great work team 👏👏

17/08/2025

Did you know…🤔
All our Community First Responders are volunteers?
Our real jobs include:-

Professor of Cyber Security 👀👨‍🎓
Contracts Director 👨🏼‍💼🔨🪚
Retired 🏌🏼🏝️🍹
2 Student Paramedics 🚑
Rehabilitation Fitness Instructor 🧘🏻‍♀️🏋🏻‍♀️
☺️ Have a nice weekend.

07/08/2025

***UPDATE***

The Public Access Defibrillator at The Citizens Advice Bureau (Bank Street) is now back in its cabinet and in full working order. The PCFR Team 🙂

07/08/2025

🌟Fun Fact 🥸 ….

As of November this year, our Emergency Basic Life Support instructor, Fiona will have delivered 74 training courses over a 20 year period. That’s over 1128 people trained in basic life support. Amazing work Fiona 👏👏👏.