Today is wellness Wednesday. Not only are we providing first response cover for this event but will also be doing some free AED & CPR Demonstrations too! ⚡️⛑️

Pop along and come and learn a life saving skill.

We are very much looking forward to this and looking forward to seeing you all there😊💙🌟 STALLHOLDER SPOTLIGHT 🌟

We’ve introduced loads of brilliant stallholders already, but our list doesn’t stop there! Here are four more fantastic organisations and businesses you’ll be able to meet at the festival. 👀

🍖 Relish
Relish will be serving up their great hog roast and BBQ throughout the day, providing plenty of delicious food to keep you fuelled while you explore the festival! 🔥

🚲 Cycling in Lowestoft
Cycling in Lowestoft will be joining us to share information and campaign for better cycling safety and access across Lowestoft. They’ll have information and flyers available, along with some fun temporary tattoos! 🚲

💪 Ree-Fitness with Fiona
Ree-Fitness with Fiona will be delivering a session inside our fitness tent, as well as having a stall throughout the day. Come along to find out more about her classes and the community she’s created, with the chance to WIN a 6-week Fitness Pilates block worth £50! 👀

🧘‍♀️ Jasmin Pilates
Jasmin Pilates will also be getting involved in our fitness tent, delivering a FREE 40-minute taster session. She’ll then be around throughout the day with a stall, giving you the opportunity to find out more about her classes and how you can get involved.

Jasmins Pilates
Ree Fitness With Fiona
Relish cafe and sandwich bar

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🎯 TARGET TUESDAY!

We’re kicking off a new Tuesday feature, giving you one simple safety target to complete each week.

This week’s target: Check your First Aid Kit 🩹

Take 5 minutes today to:

✅ Check everything is in date
✅ Replace anything that’s been used or is missing
✅ Make sure everyone knows where the first aid kit is kept

It’s one of those jobs that’s easy to put off, but you don’t want to discover something is missing when you actually need it.

💙 A small check today could make a huge difference tomorrow in making sure your kits are ready to use.

When was the last time you checked yours? Be honest?!! 👇😅

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At MJ Training , we’re proud to deliver a wide range of professional training and first aid services across the East Anglia, Norfolk, Suffolk & Essex — backed by over 34 years of experience! 🌟

⛑️ First Aid Training
🧠 Mental Health First Aid
🔥 Fire Safety Courses
📦 Manual Handling Training
🎪 Event First Aid Cover
🫂 Community Support, including Free Defibrillator Demonstrations

Whether you’re an individual, business, or community group - we provide the training you require, with flexible, friendly, and expert-led sessions. Either at your venue or our fully equipment dedicated training venue in Lowestoft.

Ofqual regulated courses. Course prices include 2x free annual refresher renewals, course manual, practice on your own QCPR manikin, up to date revision documents in accordance with HSE, light refreshments at our training centre +much more.

We’re also passionate about giving back to our local communities: offering free awareness sessions including Defibrillator and Catastrophic Bleed Demos which can help save lives.

For further information, or to discuss your training requirements, contact us on any of the below:
☎️ 07729 696061
📧 info@mjtrainme.co.uk
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And it’s the weekend again!

Time for a bit of reflection on the last few days.
Fires and more fires, some now taking homes and risking lives in the UK.

Leading to everyone receiving the National Emergency Alert yesterday, was it a bit OTT, reasonable use of the system? Personally, I would say yes.

Why? Well, where do you live? Near a park, green area, woods, dunes. All of which are tinder dry, but we still have people lighting fires, BBQ's, fire work displays going ahead and people dropping rubbish. Even an engine of a car, parked on a verge, in the heat we have been having, could radiate enough heat to start a fire.

So please be careful.

However as with Stourbridge this week, residents where saying they had literally minutes to grab a few things, many then losing everything and left with only what they hurriedly left with.

So maybe we should be thinking about are preparedness –

Do you have in date buildings and contents insurance ?
Would you be able to grab the basics in a few minutes?

Maybe we should be preparing an emergency grab bag!
Obviously as it is today, the weather will get cooler. However, then it is possible we will follow other countries and have the risk of flooding next!!

What would you need in your Emergency Grab Bag ?

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Factual Friday -

AED's Automated External Defibrillators are vital for saving lives. Anyone can use one, however there is more and more demand for the cabinets to be unlocked.

Why - Obviously the quicker you can get an AED, the quicker it is attached to a non breathing person, the better chance of survival - FACT

How do you get a Public Access AED -
Currently a vast majority are in locked cabinets, if you have a casualty then you call 999 or 112, ask for the Ambulance and if they think you need the AED they will direct you to the nearest unit and give you the code to get into it. You then take the unit to the casualty. When you no longer need the AED, then take the AED back to the cabinet and the guardian of that AED will then check it and put it back up on The Circuit, as rescue ready.

The Circuit - Is a national system where all AED's available to the public are registered. They can be in a cabinet, or inside a business and the business advise as to when they are open etc. All ambulance services have access to this database and can deploy a unit from there. Sometimes a unit is allocated to someone, but may not even leave the cabinet.

THIS CAN BE A PROBLEM - If a cabinet is not locked or the code is available to all, then someone may take the AED, without advising the Ambulance Service. The problem here is they may have already advised someone that unit is there if they need it. Or advised someone to go and get it and it may not be there!

Solution - For all cabinets to be unlocked to be available quicker, then the cabinets and or AED units will need a WIFI chip. So the ambulance services will know it the AED has been removed and take it off the circuit. Without this being in place then some poor sole may go to get an AED, while dealing with a horrendous situation already and find it is not there or not rescue ready.

So if you have an AED in a cabinet that is not locked or you display the code, do you have any protocols in place for advising The Circuit of Ambulance service it has been removed?

As much as we would love AED units to be available in unlocked cabinets I truly believe we need to think carefully how this can be managed.

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I (Michele Judd) have had a lovely time with the fantastic staff at Church Farm Holiday Park Aldeburgh churchfarmparkaldeburgh.co.uk/ over the last two days. Delivering a one day Emergency First Aid at Work Course and Forestry Plus F for 7 of the staff, (on behalf of our colleagues Red Stag Training.)
What a lovely place, so peaceful, beautiful surroundings and the lodge we where in, was amazing.
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Today, we’re at another Sparrows Nest Summer Party in The Park Event with Andy the Clown put on by Lowestoft Town Council 🌞🤡

Not only are we providing first aid cover for today’s event, but we’ve also brought along our CPR training manikins so children (and adults too!) can come and have a go at learning this life-saving skill.

Our aim is to make first aid accessible to everyone, and we believe it’s never too early to start learning. Come and have a practice, ask us any questions, and every child who takes part will receive a sticker! ⭐

📍 Sparrows Nest, Lowestoft
🕞 We’re here until 3:30pm

Come along, say hello, have a go, and enjoy a fantastic day with the community. We can’t wait to see you! 👋💙

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Only 5 on today’s course, bliss to have a smaller group now and again.

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