The Patrington Mini Medics are a small but incredibly passionate group of four 10-year-old children from East Yorkshire who have come together to promote first aid education and defibrillator awareness within their local community.
The children have all come to understand the very real impact that uncertainty and lack of preparation can have in critical moments. This understanding has driven them to take their project far beyond the initial school Lifestyle Challenge it began as.
Their belief is simple, yet powerful:
“You can’t save a life if you don’t know how.”
The Mini Medics have:
- Initiated contact with Parliament to advocate for defibrillator and first aid training to become compulsory across all age groups
- Raised funds to offer free first aid training sessions to the community, covering how to use a defibrillator, what to do when no kit is available, and basic life-saving techniques
- Organised three public training sessions, with more in the pipeline
- Formed a collaboration with The Darren Uscroft Memorial Fund, who are proudly linked with Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY)
- Completed a 20 mile Bike Ride!