14/02/2026
What a great cause for us to support!
Look after your hearts this Valentine’s Day ❤️
I should have posted this weeks ago but Christmas kind of got in the way. But I want to give a massive shoutout to Paul Markham from Green Box First Aid Training who delivered a brand new defibrillator battery to me just before Christmas. Having just been to check up on the AED at Englefield Green’s Barley Mow pub, his donation came in the nick of time and I am truly grateful that he helped me out with this incredibly expensive item which I have committed to maintain for the benefit of our community 🙏🏼
I am due to receive my First Aid refresher training with Green Box in April - this is in-the-workplace training and I cannot recommend it highly enough. When I went for my initial training I was still quite raw from my own husband’s cardiac arrest which prompted my crowdfunding campaign to install 24/7 access community defibrillators. But he handled this with sensitivity and I can honestly say it’s the best training I’ve ever had! ❤️
Whilst I’m on the gratitude train, a reminder that the actual defibrillator unit at the Barley Mow was donated by the brilliant people at Thames Valley Heartbeat. They’re a small, volunteer run charity whose raison d’etre is purely to raise funds for defibrillators to be installed within communities. So whilst your donations to my crowdfunding appeal paid for the cabinet, TVH provided the AED, so please support them in any way you can to continue doing great things for communities like ours. As they say, we hope you’ll never need it…