Mini First Aid East Cheshire & Northwich

05/12/2025

02/12/2025

Gorgeous Christmas get together and planning day with our wonderful trainer Charis .

We are truly so blessed and grateful to have her on our team. We look forward to what 2026 has to bring...soo exciting!! 💚

01/12/2025

Since we've had lots of new followers we thought we would take the opportunity to introduce ourselves again.

We're Amy and Helen and we met 10 years ago at pregnancy yoga with our first babies. We've now both got 2 children who are all great friends too. 

Helen has been a Primary School Teacher for the past 18 years and has had to deal with many first aid situations with children. I was cabin crew for 10 years with Emirates and dealt with lots of first aid incidents whilst at 36,000 feet in the air. During our motherhood journey we have had lots of personal experience too. 

✨ In September 2022 we were both ready for a new challenge and decided to take the leap of faith and go into business together; we joined the amazing franchise team and we've not looked back. We absolutely love what we do and always have so much fun planning and growing our business together. 

So please check out our website for all the classes and courses that we offer. We teach first aid to children from as young as 3 to adults! We would love to help you all to have a life saving skill that you'll never regret! 

As we say "It's better to know it and not need it, than to need it and not know it!" 

❤️Wishing you all a calm as possible first week of December! You've got this...❤️

30/11/2025

30/11/2025

First aid training is boring, right? Or is it?!

If you have to have a first aid qualification in your role at work, you probably dread those hours of watching dry presentations and demonstrations.

What if we told you that first aid training doesn’t have to be like that! Come and train with us! We have a range of certified workplace first aid courses and our teaching isn’t like all the rest.

Our sessions are practical, hands-on, scenario-based and fun! We believe people learn best when they are involved in what they are being taught.

Get in touch for more info:

📧 amyandhelen@minifirstaid.co.uk

Paediatric First Aid, Paediatric First Aid - Outdoor Learning, First Aid At Work, Emergency First Aid At Work, Defibrillator Training, Auto Injector Training

29/11/2025

Come and join us for our last Baby and Child first aid class of 2025 at Pure Imagination Play Centre in Poynton.

Click the link below to secure your place.

https://eastcheshire.minifirstaid.co.uk/classes/open/21036

Spaces are limited so don't miss out! We look forward to welcoming you💚

28/11/2025

⚠️ 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.

27/11/2025

✨ 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.

💚5 initial breaths, 15 compressions : 2 breaths are now recommended for paediatric BASIC life support training (previously this was only taught in advanced courses to avoid confusion).

🍇 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

27/11/2025

🌟Baby & Child first aid class🌟

We our so excited to be bringing our award winning Baby and Child first aid class to Hartford.

We deliver life-saving first aid skills in a relaxed and friendly setting. This class is perfect for parents, carers, grandparents & anyone looking after little ones.

📍 £30pp | ⏰ 2 hours | 🧠 Confidence for life

📅 Spaces are limited – book your place now:

👉 https://eastcheshire.minifirstaid.co.uk/classes/open/21157

26/11/2025

Early start for me and Ted this morning as we're teaching the whole of St Mary's Primary school,our Early years and Kids First Aid session. They will all recieve a booklet and certificate to keep,which they all love.

We are so excited and can't wait..💚