Andrew Hingley-Smith and Jo Bradley-Johns are Trysull and Seisdon Parish Council Councillors in Staffordshire, approximately five miles south-west of Wolverhampton.Trysull Village Hall is one of the latest recipients of a HAJMT AED in 2021. Founded in 1951 the Playing Fields were created to provide permanent facilities for outdoor sport, including cricket and football along with a dedicated children’s playground.Today, the ground is filled with members of the Trysull Tigers football club and, when the season begins, the Trysull and Seisdon Cricket Club. During the week the park is used by the local primary school for all its outdoor activities as well as local dog walkers. Because of this, the HAJMT Trustees agreed it was a perfect position for an HAJMT AED as will be accessible by a lot of local people of all ages.
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Category: Projects
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Busy Playing Fields Now Has Access to a HAJMT AED
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Generosity of Graftongate Utilises Local Phone Box
Colin is a Director of Graftongate and is pictured here with an HAJMT AED and Elaine Field, Chair of the Parish Council in Henley in Arden. Colin, along with Phil Silk and Henry Angell-James were co-founders of Graftongate, which is a commercial real-estate investor and developer, specialising in industrial and logistics developments. Graftongate has recently donated one of our AEDs to the local community to ensure that everyone in Henley in Arden has access to an AED. What better place than inside a phone box on the high street?
Graftongate is also committed to ensuring that our AEDs are included in all of it’s buildings. For each AED installed, Graftongate makes a donation to the HAJMT charity that in turn helps to buy more AEDs for those communities in need. A truly fabulous legacy for Henry.
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High On A Hill For This HAJMT AED
Meet Year 1 and Year 2 of Clive CE Primary School and Nursery, Shropshire.
We are delighted to have recently donated one of our AEDs to the school whose core values are Respect, Responsibility & Resilience. The school is unique in many ways– not least because there is limited vehicular access, great because it means that all the children and staff get a walk to school every day. It is also safer as there are few, if any, vehicles near the school gate at drop off and home times.
However, its location also brings challenges. Clive CE Primary School and Nursery is situated halfway up Grinshill Hill— a popular place for walkers and bikers, even more so during lockdown. Needless to say, the trustees unanimously approved the application for a HAJMT AED to be installed at the school. A perfect and important location to serve those that live in the community and those that are are lucky enough to visit it.
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An Ideal Spot For A HAJMT AED
The ideal spot for a HAJMT AED, the village hall at the heart of the community. Bill Rollo, Chairman of the Parish Council of the village of Weston-under-Redcastle in North Shropshire is seen here with Sally A-J and the village’s newly installed HAJMT AED.
The village of Weston-under-Redcastle was keen to apply for an AED as the area is populated with retired people as well as many visitors who enjoy walking and cycling around the stunning countryside. The village is also at the entrance of the Grade 1 heritage site of Hawkstone Park Follies with its dramatic landscape including gullies, caves, towers and bridges. Hawkstone Hotel is also nearby, which has two 18 hole golf courses, and in the winter provides a significant tourist attraction with Santa Claus opening his grotto at Christmas.
Weston-under-Redcastle holds a major annual show attended by many thousands each year, yet Weston still has that lovely typical feel of a small country English village.
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Community Focused & Team Effort
Laura and Linda Wyke and Philip Knott together with Sally at Leo Farm in Benthall, Shropshire.
Benthall is a small rural village, near Broseley, which lies on the right bank of the Severn River facing the town of Ironbridge. The village is home to about 300 residents, most of whom are elderly, and the area gets a lot of visitors at all times of the year thanks to the beautiful @BenthallNT, a National Trust property nearby. The area also attracts walkers, cyclists and runners who have over 40 routes in the area to choose from according to @ordnancesurvey.
Leo Farm, located in the centre of the village, is also a Caravan and Motorhome Club Certificated Location, which accepts just five caravans or motorhomes and is for Club Members only.
Our decision to donate an AED to the village was an easy one to make and installing it turned into a community project. A ‘trench’ party was formed to install the electrics to the AED just outside Leo Farm in the centre of the village. The digging party included Nigel Wyke, Nick Downes (seen in the second photo) and his sister Myra with biscuits supplied by Laura Wyke. Mike McGowan from Graeburn Electrics kindly installed the AED. According to Sally “It was a real community effort” and we couldn’t be happier that they have received one of our AED’s.To help us buy more AED’s for communities like these, please click on the link in our bio.#LeoFarm #Benthall #Shropshire #Severn #Ironbridge #NationalTrust #GetOutside #Barrow #Willey #caravan #motorehome #GraeburnElectrics -
AMBULANCE SERVICE FOOTBALL TEAM NETS A COMMUNITY DEFIB
AMBULANCE SERVICE FOOTBALL TEAM NETS A COMMUNITY DEFIB
West Midland Ambulance Service’s Stoke Hub Football Club has secured a community defibrillator after working together with the Henry Angell-James Memorial Trust (HAJMT).
The football team train and play at Norton Sports in Stoke on Trent and after successfully applying to HAJMT for a defib to be donated, they have installed it at the community sports club, which also hosts Stoke City Ladies, Staffordshire Police FC and hundreds of youngsters who enjoy a kickabout on a weekly basis.The defibrillator will not only be available to those using the sports facilities, it will be available 24/7 to nearby residents and the local community, should it ever be needed in the case of someone suffering a cardiac arrest.
WMAS paramedic and Stoke Hub FC manager Matt Harrison, said: “With recent events from the European Championships fresh in everyone’s mind when Christian Eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest on the pitch, it is more important than ever for people to think about installing defibrillators in community areas.
“We had already started the process of trying to obtain a defibrillator before that happened as it is not only ourselves who play here, there are hundreds of members of the local community who play their football here every week and whilst we hope it is never needed to be use, it might just save a life one day.”
The defibrillator was donated by HAJMT, a Trust set up with the idea of helping to install them at key locations across the West Midlands and beyond, whether that is at sports grounds, schools train stations or the village sweet shop.
HAJMT Chairman, Sally Angell-James, said: “We are delighted to have been able to provide a defib to Stoke Hub Football Club as they do a huge amount of good work in their local community and they came to us with such a good proposal, there was no way we could say no.”
WMAS Community Response Manager, Cliff Medlicott, said: “In the case of a sudden cardiac arrest, the definitive care is good basic life support and use of a defibrillator. For every minute that your heart stops beating and you stop breathing, your survival rate reduces by 10%. The quicker good basic life support and a defibrillator can be applied, the better chance of survival that patient has.”
HAJMT accepts applications for defibrillator donations through their website at www.hajmt.co.uk. Not every application will be successful, but the Trust does put a focus on helping areas of the community obtain a defibrillator that may find it difficult to obtain one through self-funding. You can also make a donation to HAJMT by visiting the website.
West Midland Ambulance Service’s Stoke Hub Football Club has secured a community defibrillator after working together with the Henry Angell-James Memorial Trust (HAJMT).
The football team train and play at Norton Sports in Stoke on Trent and after successfully applying to HAJMT for a defib to be donated, they have installed it at the community sports club, which also hosts Stoke City Ladies, Staffordshire Police FC and hundreds of youngsters who enjoy a kickabout on a weekly basis.
The defibrillator will not only be available to those using the sports facilities, it will be available 24/7 to nearby residents and the local community, should it ever be needed in the case of someone suffering a cardiac arrest.
WMAS paramedic and Stoke Hub FC manager (??) Matt Harrison, said: “With recent events from the European Championships fresh in everyone’s mind when Christian Eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest on the pitch, it is more important than ever for people to think about installing defibrillators in community areas.
“We had already started the process of trying to obtain a defibrillator before that happened as it is not only ourselves who play here, there are hundreds of members of the local community who play their football here every week and whilst we hope it is never needed to be use, it might just save a life one day.”
The defibrillator was donated by HAJMT, a Trust set up with the idea of helping to install them at key locations across the West Midlands and beyond, whether that is at sports grounds, schools train stations or the village sweet shop.
HAJMT Chairman, Sally Angell-James, said: “We are delighted to have been able to provide a defib to Stoke Hub Football Club as they do a huge amount of good work in their local community and they came to us with such a good proposal, there was no way we could say no.”
WMAS Community Response Manager, Cliff Medlicott, said: “In the case of a sudden cardiac arrest, the definitive care is good basic life support and use of a defibrillator. For every minute that your heart stops beating and you stop breathing, your survival rate reduces by 10%. The quicker good basic life support and a defibrillator can be applied, the better chance of survival that patient has.”