Kenilworth organisation and pub teaming up to teach life-saving skills

An organisation and a pub in Kenilworth will be teaming up to teach life-saving skills.

Kenilworth HeartSafe’s 'Saving Lives in Kenilworth' campaign continues to make strong strides despite Covid restrictions.

With 21 Automatic External Defibrillators (AED) now publicly available 24/7, a massive increase on the original five AED’s in the area when the campaign started, the focus on training people in Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) skills and the use of AED’ continues.

More than 50 people have been trained by Kenilworth HeartSafe in the last few weeks at training sessions held at St John’s Church and St Nicholas Parochial Hall.

The next two training sessions, each lasting around 30 minutes, are demonstrations of compression-only CPR and the use of an AED.

These will be held in the garden of The Tiltyard Pub in Leyes Lane with permission of the tenant, known to his friends as “AJ”, on Saturday September 26 at noon and 1pm.

Kenilworth HeartSafe trustee and trainer, Seringa Dudley said: “People attending these informal sessions will go away equipped with the simple but essential skills that could help them save a life on a future occasion.

"Modern AED’s are simple to use and give clear spoken instructions to anyone deploying them but the benefit of a training session is to offer some familiarity of use in a non-stressful situation."

Tiltyard proprietor “AJ “said: “Since the AED was installed on our external wall I have wanted to support a training session for our 'regulars' but Covid lockdown got in the way.

"I am delighted that Kenilworth HeartSafe has been able to adapt their training sessions to allow for appropriate social distancing so that we can move on with this vital skills training."

People interested in attending either of these training sessions should sign up on the register sheets behind the bar in The Tiltyard pub or email [email protected]

Further information about Kenilworth HeartSafe; the location of the AED’s in and around Kenilworth; its CPR training programme and ways of making donations can be found at www.kenilwortheartsafe.com