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This project successfully funded on 3rd June 2026, you can still support them with a donation.
Fareham Community First Responders
Fareham, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Aim
FAREHAM COMMUNITY FIRST RESPONDERS Community fundraising for the South Central Ambulance Service charity
FAREHAM COMMUNITY FIRST RESPONDERS
Who are we and what do we do?
We are a team of South Central Ambulance Service volunteer responders who attend 999/111 Calls alongside regular ambulances. Community First Responders (CFR's) are trained volunteers who live and work in their local communities and can be sent to life-threatening emergencies, often arriving in the crucial first minutes before an ambulance crew.
We aim to be first on scene when you need us most as we are generally dispatched to incidents in our local area and may be closer than a regular Ambulance.
Another function we carry out as CFR’s is to deliver basic life support and trauma and first aid courses to local community groups, organisations and businesses.
We have provided this training to Scout and Cub groups, sports clubs, community interest groups, schools, colleges, and cadet organisations throughout 2025 and so far in 2026. We provide full resources, practical training aids and in-depth theoretical knowledge to ensure each learner, regardless of age or background finishes the course empowered with the confidence and skills to be an effective first aider in the event of an emergency incident they may find themselves a part of.
What equipment do we carry?
Our Response Car is equipped with a wide range of equipment that we may need to support patients until an Ambulance can arrive. We carry equipment such as; Oxygen, Entonox (Gas and air), a Defibrillator, observation equipment (to measure pulse rate, blood pressure, temperature, blood glucose levels and oxygen saturations), dressings and bandages, catastrophic haemorrhage control equipment and an Emergency lifting apparatus.
What training do we have?
All of our volunteers complete comprehensive in-house training with South Central Ambulance and attend core skills refreshers to ensure that we are up to date with all the life-saving skills that are required!
How do we get tasked to 999 calls?
We are dispatched by the Ambulance Service Control Room as an additional resource alongside our regular ambulances. This means that if you call 999/111, even though we are dispatched at the same time, one of our responders may arrive before a regular ambulance.
You may see us driving in one of our Marked Dacia response units, these vehicles allow us to carry all of our equipment and is brightly marked with orange and green livery and South Central Ambulance Charity branding.
How can I help?
There are a number of ways that you can get involved, but the most valuable resource to us as a charity is through donations to the South Central Ambulance Charity.
https://scascharity.org.uk/
This enables us to purchase new equipment, train more volunteers and to provide support and welfare to our operational staff!
Thanks to money raised for the South Central Ambulance Charity, 179 new community first responders (CFRs) were recruited last year.
Your fundraising helps:
👉 Recruit and train new volunteers
👉 Equip CFRs with essential life-saving kit
👉 Strengthen emergency response in towns, villages and rural areas
Every new CFR means faster help, closer to home, when it’s needed most.
In 2025, volunteer CFR's from the Fareham team provided an amazing 2,340:22 hours of operational response to 999 emergencies across our area.
This does not include the hundreds of additional hours we've devoted to delivering courses, school visits and public events.
All this can only be made possible through the generosity of all of you, making valuable donations through here to South Central Ambulance Charity to keep us kitted up and on the road.
Please help us, help you!
Thank you.
Fareham Community First Responders
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made