Raising disability awareness

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Enable Me is a partnership project based in Littlehampton, West Sussex that works in schools, colleges, youth groups and in the community to raise disability awareness and to increase volunteering and participation. Enable Me provides a range of services and activities with a disability focus that are delivered by trained volunteers, the majority of whom are disabled. We also offer opportunities for people with disabilities to increase their skills, knowledge and self-esteem by working with us either as volunteers or part-time staff.

Our aims are to:

�         Raise disability awareness

�         Promote social inclusion

�         Build partnerships

�         Increase volunteering and participation

 

For any Schools or other organisations wishing to work with Enable Me
or for   further information about the project, please contact:

Nik Demetriades or Ann Stimpson on 01903 734400 (Tel/Fax)

write to: info@enableme.org.uk
visit: http://www.enableme.org.uk

The Dairy, 3-5, Church Street, Littlehampton, West Sussex BN17 5EL

 

 

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The International Rescue Corps is an independent (non government funded) United Nations Registered disaster rescue service. Our prime function is to operate as a first phase rescue team specifically in casualty location.

After receiving a request for help, it is the aim of the IRC to mobilise a self-contained rescue team within 24 hours for overseas missions or within minutes for UK missions.

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We are an autonomous organisation and constitutionally bound to attend all natural or man made disasters irrespective of race, creed or politics.

The size of an initial team will consist of around 15 people with additional or relief teams despatched as required. Flexibility of role is essential as teams inevitably become involved in humanitarian work, although the IRC has no capability to provide either full scale medical support or relief for survivors.

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We are also able to provide a reconnaissance and co-ordination service for the United Nations if required.

We are a UK registered charity supported entirely by donations from the public and sponsorship from industry and manned entirely by volunteers.

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The Aims of SERV...

• SERV aims to supply a safe, quick and reliable service to local hospitals and doctors for the transport of Emergency Blood and Blood products.
• SERV will also transport emergency medical equipment, drugs and donor organs if requested to do so.
• SERV will also transport between hospitals in cases of emergency. At night, free of any charge this will release more money for patient care.
• This service is provided between the hours of 7pm and 6am, 7 nights a week, 52 weeks of the year.
• SERV also supplies 24hr cover over the Christmas and New Year Bank Holidays.
• All of our members are volunteers and receive no recompense for their time or out of pocket expenses.

How SERV works...

SERV has its main control room in New Malden, Surrey. This is manned every night from 7pm to 6am. The duty riders are also stationed here and some are based at home. The office has two phones installed: one is for the hospitals to contact the office; the other is to contact the duty member if based at home or relevant county if the call is for another area.

The duty members cover one night out of every fourteen, and rotate with other members who are on duty that night as well. This means that one rider is first the next second, etc., then the next time that they are on duty the one who was first is second and so on. This way all duty members are first rider at some time during the rota's cycle. There is also a duty coordinator who deals with any problems that may occur during the week.

Once a hospital has contacted the blood bank and ordered the blood, they contact the office and a rider is dispatched immediately to the blood bank, with an insulated medically approved blood bag. This ensures that the blood or blood product is properly insulated and protected from extremes of temperature. Once the blood product is placed within the bag and sealed it will remain inside until it arrives at the hospital that requested it. If it is for a hospital in another county, then while the main rider leaves to go to the blood bank, the office calls the duty coordinator of the county that covers that particular hospital, who then dispatches their duty rider from his/her home to a transfer point to await the arrival of the main rider.

All riders must follow a set route to each hospital. This is to ensure that should a breakdown occur, a relief rider could be dispatched knowing where the rider should be at any time during the run. This saves time and effort and ensures that there is as little delay to the run as possible.

The number of calls received by the control room averages 3 calls a night, not including transfers. The most calls received in one night were 17.

Over 16,000 runs have been carried out so far.

SERV's Future...

With the ever-increasing need for the health service to save much needed funds, but to ensure good patient care, the demands upon the charity grow each year.

In the beginning only Surrey and Outer London Hospitals required or saw the need for this service, now there are three counties who require the service with more requesting it each year.

SERV needs to grow to meet the increasing demands being placed upon it, but this growth, as explained in previous sections of this booklet, is restricted to its ability to fund and maintain the service. The willingness to do so is there, as is the availability of members to back up the service. The stumbling block is FUNDS, though the membership is determined to try its hardest to meet the needs of the medical section and supply the service that is so obviously needed.

With help this service can grow and help to save more lives, by saving the hospitals money as well as providing a quick and reliable means of Transporting Emergency Blood at night.

                  
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Vision, mission and values

Our vision is:

Everyone who needs it should receive first aid from those around them. No one should suffer for the lack of trained first aiders.

Our mission is:

• To provide an effective and efficient charitable first aid service to local communities
• To provide training and products to satisfy first aid and related health and safety needs for all of society
• To encourage personal development for people of all ages, through training and by membership of our organisation.

St John Ambulance people:

• provide care to those who need it
• put the needs of others first
• show commitment to those around them through the depth and range of their skills
• welcome and value those who offer their talents and time for the service of others
• work for, with and in the community
• respect the trust placed upon them
• encourage and bring out the best in each other
• deliver what they promise

Support us

As a registered charity St John Ambulance relies on donations to help fund our vital lifesaving first aid and community care projects. Our 43,000 volunteers freely give over five million hours of their own time every year to help care and save lives. Please support us and help us to keep on saving lives and making a difference in every community.