General Public & Young People

At St John Ambulance Cymru, our mission is to make first aid for everyone – anytime, anywhere. In order to achieve this, we aim to train as many members of the public in life saving first aid skills as possible. The profits made from our workplace courses allow us to provide free awareness training in Welsh communities and help us work towards our goal. All training for children is also offered free of charge.

Our full list of courses for the general public and young people are below. For any further advice please contact our team.

Throughout the year, we run 3 campaigns in conjunction with other organisations to increase public knowledge of valuable lifesaving skills. During these campaigns we have an increased amount of awareness courses on offer, so please check back a few weeks before each campaign begins:

Defibruary - Throughout the month of February, we aim to train as many people as possible in using a defibrillator. 

Child Safety Week - During the first week of June, we reach out to communities to arm them with first aid skills for children and infants

Save a Life September - The month of September sees us working within communities in Wales to raise awareness for basic first aid skills

If you are interested in our Free Online Awareness training you can find more information here.

Free Awareness Training for community groups and schools

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Child & Infant Awareness Online

Every year, more than half a million children under five need to go to hospital after having an accident at home. Attend one of our free, online Child & Infant First Aid Taster Sessions to learn the basics that could save your child's life.

Child & Infant First Aid

This Child and Infant First Aid course will teach you some of the most common accidents and injuries suffered by infants and children up to the age of puberty. So if the unthinkable happens and your child has an accident, you’ll know exactly what to do.

First Aid Awareness Session

  This short awareness session will give you an insight into first aid skills and a chance to try out your skills so you will know the basics of first aid if the need arises. This will give you a brief insight into some of the techniques that could help you to save a life.

Outdoor First Aid Awareness

This short awareness session will give you an insight into first aid skills and a chance to try out your skills so you will know the basics of outdoor first aid if the need arises. This will give you a brief insight into some of the techniques that could help you to save a life whilst in an outside environment.

Public Access Defib Awareness

The prospect of using an AED (Automatic External Defibrillator) might be daunting, but with the increasing availability of public access AEDs it is vital that the general public have access to awareness training. This short awareness session will take you through how to access and use a public access AED and will  teach you how to administer CPR.

We also provide free community and school training. If this is something you would be interested in, then click the below link.

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If you have a group of people to train and would like a course designed specifically for your staff, call us on 03456785646 to discuss.

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