# Friends of Forth Valley First Responders

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC044193
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Unincorporated association
- **Registered:** Aug. 8, 2013
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC044193


## Contact

- **Address:** Friends of Forth Valley First Responders, 53A Grangemouth Road, Falkirk
- **Postcode:** FK2 9AA
- **Website:** www.fvcfr.org.uk



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the saving of lives&#x27;

**What the charity does:** The Charity is set up to save lives. We do this by supporting a Community First Responder group and helping place Public Access Defibrillators into the community. The First responder Group support the Scottish Ambulance Service by responding to 999 calls on their behalf, usually arriving at the patient before the Ambulance. We also help save lives by helping install Public Access defibrillators into the community. The defibrillators are deployed by the Ambulance Service to someone suffering a cardiac condition. We also carry out CPR and defibrillator awareness sessions for the community. All the above satisfy our aim of Saving lives.

**Objectives:** The purpose of the organisation is to save lifes.





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** Falkirk
- **Geographical spread:** More than one local authority area in Scotland






