Mini First Aid Peterborough & Boston

03/12/2025

🏆 Winner! A Gold Award for our Baby & Child First Aid Classes!

We're delighted to have won a gold Mother&Baby Award in the Pregnancy Products category for our flagship class - Baby & Child First Aid for Parents & Carers 🎉

It's the first time our classes have been included in this award category which makes it extra special to have taken the top prize. Thank you, Mother & Baby Awards, for recognising our 'unique and crucial product, which could potentially save a life' - it was noted that 'parents were comforted by the expertise and knowledge' imparted in our classes.

That's what it's all about for us, giving expectant and new parents and carers the knowledge, skills and confidence to deal with first aid accidents and emergencies.

If you would like to learn more about our award-winning two-hour baby & child first aid classes, please check out our website, where you can also find a class in your local area.

🔗 https://minifirstaid.co.uk/classes
📍 UK Wide
💷 From £30 per/person

01/12/2025

2 hour baby and child first aid class this Friday evening at Barnack Village Hall, Stamford. 6 pm start.

Last open class for parents and carers this year.

Please book online if you would like to join us.
www.peterbrough.minifirstaid.co.uk

28/11/2025

✨ We’re up to date with the new Resuscitation Council UK guidelines

The Resuscitation Council UK has released updates to paediatric and infant life-support guidance, and we want you to know that Mini First Aid is already on it. We’re rolling out team training and updating our lesson plans to make sure everything we teach reflects the very latest evidence.

If you’ve trained with us before or gained a workplace qualification with us, don’t worry, the qualification remains valid, and the skills you learned are still safe and effective. First aid evolves as new research emerges, and these updates simply offer techniques that may help rescuers deliver even better-quality care.

Here are some of the key changes:

Baby CPR: The preferred method for infants under 1 is now a two-thumb encircling technique. This can help you achieve consistent, effective chest compression depth with less finger fatigue. Other methods (one-hand or two-hand) can still be used if age-appropriate and needed.

Choking in infants: Still start with 5 back blows. If that doesn’t work, follow with 5 chest compressions using the encircling technique, which replaces the two-finger approach.

Using an AED:
• Use paediatric mode for infants and children under 25 kg (approx. under age 8 ).
• If there’s no paediatric setting, use adult mode, don’t delay.
• Pad placement guidance has been refined for clarity and effectiveness.

These improvements aim to make life-saving actions even more effective across all ages.

We’ll keep you updated as we roll out these updates in our classes, and we'll share demonstrations on the new techniques here on our socials as soon as we have these ready.

As always, our mission is to make sure you feel confident, informed, and ready to help when it matters most 💚

Resuscitation Council UK

28/11/2025

28/11/2025

💚 Special offer from Mini First Aid Peterborough and Boston only!

💚 This is an ideal opportunity for nurseries, preschools, and primary and secondary schools looking for confident staff and empowered young learners.

In honour of Black Friday, we are making a special offer to education providers in our community.

When you book a Workplace First Aid Qualification Course for your staff in 2026, we will provide your Children with a FREE First Aid Class to help them build confidence and essential life-saving skills.

Bookings must be made by 31st January 2026 and with Mini First Aid Peterborough and Boston only.

Please contact us to take advantage of this offer and book your training for 2026.

christina@minifirstaid.co.uk 07843 490991
www.peterborough.minifirstaid.co.uk

27/11/2025

⚠️ Button Battery Warning ⚠️ Perhaps you are very careful not to buy toys with button batteries, but many common items in your home also contain them, which means there is always a risk that they could be accessible to your child.

Button batteries are small, shiny and just the kind of item that a toddler or small child might pop in their mouth or easily swallow. If swallowed, they can get stuck in the food pipe, where saliva creates a chemical reaction that produces caustic soda. This can cause severe internal burns, internal bleeding, and in extreme cases, death.

We have highlighted a few items in this carousel that can contain button batteries. Take a look around your home to spot where you might find them 👀 And here are some top tips for helping keep them out of your little ones' hands and mouth:

Make sure all the battery compartments are secure and unable to be opened by a small child.

Think about where you store your replacement batteries for these items. Are they completely out of reach for children?

When you are changing batteries, what do you do with the old ones? Make sure you immediately put them somewhere secure and don't leave them lying around or forget about them. We advise always taking old batteries to a recycling centre so they don't make their way to landfill.

Button batteries are everywhere, even in surprising places, so it’s super important to know the dangers, assess your risks at home and mitigate as far as possible.

25/11/2025

If you have black or brown skin and take a first aid class where they tell you to look out for blue lips and red skin marks, how do you know what that looks like for your child?

Medical and first aid literature, imagery and teaching has always traditionally been taught with an assumption that you or your child has white skin. But if your child is black or brown, their lips won’t go blue and rashes and burns will look different. And you need to know this information.

All of our trainers undertake diversity training, and in our classes, we teach first aid for all skin colours as standard.

No more guesswork. We will talk you through exactly what to look out for no matter what skin tone your child has.

This brilliant review is for our trainer Lell - you’ll get this same teaching wherever you are in the UK.

Book now on our website for baby & child first aid. Go to the classes tab and out your postcode into the search bar for your closest sessions.

25/11/2025

South Lakes Police: "This incident serves as a very real reminder that ANYONE has the ability to preserve life. If you have the opportunity to learn CPR or basic first aid - PLEASE TAKE IT!
When it comes to situations such as this, every second counts and the power is literally in YOUR hands!"

How wonderful to have a good outcome on what sounded like a terribly bleak emergency situation.

Please learn CPR, it saves lives 💚

2666 👋



Yesterday (23/11) Area Beat Officers and Response colleagues from Unit 2, Kendal responded to an incident on the outskirts of Sedbergh.

We know that, whenever sirens are heard or where the air ambulance arrives speculation and concern often follow so in this case we wanted to provide a brief update.

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This incident involved a report that a kayaker, as part of a recreational group had got into difficulty on the water, near to Birks and that, as a result, he was unresponsive.

CPR was commenced and multi agency response was initiated.

The first emergency service vehicle arrived on scene around 5 minutes after the call to 999 was made.

As police officers at such incidents we always prepare for the worst case scenario, in readiness to pass news on to a casualties next of kin. It is without doubt one of the hardest parts of the job.

In this case the outlook was bleak from the outset.

Fortunately, other members of the kayak party were conversant with CPR, basic life support and had begun life saving actions without any hesitation with emergency services taking over and utilising a mobile defib machine to deliver the required shock.

We'll never know the impact of this early intervention directly other than to confirm that this afternoon we have received confirmation that the male, who had been placed in an induced coma, was suffering with hypothermia and cardiac issues was upright and talking to his loved ones from his hospital bed.

The initial assessment of his critical condition had been downgraded.

This incident serves as a very real reminder that ANYONE has the ability to preserve life. If you have the opportunity to learn CPR or basic first aid - PLEASE TAKE IT!

When it comes to situations such as this, every second counts and the power is literally in YOUR hands!

We continue to be in awe of the swift and efficient actions of our emergency services colleagues within the Ambulance (land and air) and fire service!

We continue to send our best wishes to the casualty and hope his recovery is swift.



Sedbergh Fire Station North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust Great North Air Ambulance Service North West Air Ambulance Charity

22/11/2025

Road Safety Week is always a great time to share this reminder about your child's roadside visibility in these darker winter months.

This image shows the difference in visibility between a child wearing a dark coat (bottom image) and the same child wearing a bright coat (top image), waiting to cross a road in the evening light.

If your child wears a dark winter coat, bear in mind that car drivers may not see them as clearly if they were to step out onto the road.

Of course, the main focus needs to be on driver awareness and reducing car speed, particularly around schools, but it doesn't hurt to think about small changes we can make that can perhaps add extra protection for our children, such as buying bright clothing!

Please share for awareness 💚