Street First Aid

22/07/2026

🌺 WEEK 1

The Journey Starts Here

🌺 Meet Car 25... and our mission.

This September, Neil Kerr and Andy Davidson, two military veterans and members of the Royal British Legion will be driving nearly 2,000 miles across 12 European countries in a 25 year old Škoda Fabia, travelling from to as part of the Veterans Honour Rally.

At the moment though...

🚗 Car 25 is off the road.

It needs an MOT, servicing, safety checks, tyres, branding and plenty of preparation before it's ready for one of the biggest journeys of its life.

🌺 Why Poppies & Purpose?

The poppies represent remembrance for those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Our purpose is to continue serving by raising funds and awareness for charities supporting veterans, local communities and life saving first aid through Street First Aid.

Now we are asking our community to help make this journey possible.

Whether you're a garage, local business or someone who simply wants to support the mission, we'd love to hear from you.

❤️ Could you help prepare Car 25?

🌺 Dedicate a Poppy for £10.

🛣️ Power a Mile for £1.50.

Together we'll transform an old family car into a vehicle of remembrance.

🔗 Support the mission:
Find out more on our Poppies & Purpose Linktree https://linktr.ee/poppiesandpurpose

21/07/2026

It was a great session with some community members who were really passionate about bleed control💜
Thank you for the invite, we would love to schedule another session if there is enough interest?💜

18/07/2026

🩸💜 Empowering our communities to save lives. 💜🩸

At Street First Aid, we don’t just provide Public Access Bleed Kits, we also provide FREE community bleed awareness training wherever a public access bleed kit is available.

It doesn’t matter who supplied the kit. If it’s accessible to the whole community, we’re passionate about ensuring local people have the confidence and skills to use it when every second counts.

Yesterday, Andy had the privilege of delivering a Community Bleed Awareness Session in Swaffham, following the installation of a Public Access Bleed Kit at Swaffham Community Centre, safely housed alongside their community AED.

👏 It was fantastic to welcome 14 members of the community, including representatives from the local church, the community centre, and both Swaffham Rugby Club and Swaffham Football Club and a local Community First Responder.

During the session we covered:
🩸 How to use every item in a Public Access Bleed Kit
🩹 Simple techniques to control life threatening bleeding
👕 How to improvise effective bleed control using everyday items if a kit isn’t immediately available
💙 The importance of acting quickly while emergency services are on their way

A huge thank you to everyone who came along and invested their time in learning skills that could one day save a life.

📍If your community has a Public Access Bleed Kit, we’d love to help your local residents, clubs and organisations learn how to use it. Get in touch to arrange a FREE Community Bleed Awareness Session.

Together, we can build safer, more resilient communities.

15/07/2026

Fantastic initiative! 👏 Giving young people positive experiences, building confidence and creating trusted relationships are all vital in reducing vulnerability to exploitation. Programmes that make a real difference. ⛵❤️

14/07/2026

🚑💜 A brilliant day at Norfolk County Hall, Norwich, delivering an Emergency First Aid at Work course for the fantastic Youth Workers from Targeted Youth Support Services (TYSS), Norfolk County Council.

We’re proud to work alongside this amazing team and regularly deliver our Youth Street First Aid sessions for both Norfolk Youth Justice Service and TYSS, helping equip young people with the confidence and skills to act in an emergency.

Today’s course covered CPR ❤️, AED ⚡, choking 🫁, catastrophic bleeding 🩸 and other essential life-saving skills. An engaged group, great discussions and lots of practical learning!

The difference between panic and action is training. 💜

02/07/2026

🍔🍰 We’re at the Stowmarket Food & Drink Festival this Sunday! 🚑💜

If you’re heading to the fantastic Stowmarket Food & Drink Festival this Sunday, make sure you come and say hello at Red Gables!

The festival is expected to attract thousands of visitors, with more than 80 food and drink stalls, live music, family entertainment and activities taking place across Stowmarket, the Food Museum and Red Gables. It’s a brilliant day out for all ages! (Stowmarket Town Council)

📍 You’ll find Street First Aid right next to the East of England Ambulance Service.

🩸 Throughout the day, Neil will be giving practical demonstrations on how to control catastrophic (Life threatening) bleeding using our Bleed Control Pouches.

This is your chance to:
✅ See life-saving equipment up close
✅ Learn simple techniques that could help save a life
✅ Ask questions about bleed control and emergency first aid
✅ Find out how Street First Aid is helping make our communities safer

You never know when these skills might be needed, but knowing what to do could make all the difference.

Whether you’re coming for the amazing food, the family fun or just a great day out, we’d love to meet you.

💜 Come and say hello… you might leave with a skill that could one day save someone’s life.

📍 Red Gables, Stowmarket
➡️ Look for us next to the East of England Ambulance Service stand!

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02/07/2026

We are really looking forwards to this Sunday, Neil will be demonstrating our Bleed Control Pouches and explaining why everyone should get one to keep in their cars 💜

02/07/2026

Exercise Dandelion. Delighted to have been informed that our upcoming sailing expeds, for children from local schools impacted by County Lines and child exploitation, have recieved council approval. ⛵️🌊

The first of three planned expeds departs from Gosport in just under two weeks. 🗓

Close to 200 service families, service personnel and NHS staff signed up to our first national webinar to discuss the impact of child exploitation on the service community. That brings the number to almost 3,000 nationally since the New Year. 💻📱

Exercise Dandelion, designed to challenge young adults in a safe and controlled environment, is intended as an extension of these training sessions. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦💂‍♂️

BFBS Salisbury Plain
Forces News
Soldier Magazine
Tidworth Town Council & Tidworth Civic Centre
Ludgershall Town Council
Aldershot Garrison
Army HIVE
Army Families Federation - AFF

25/06/2026

Today at Swaffham Community Centre we delivered six one-to-one Street First Aid sessions with young people on behalf of the Norfolk Youth Justice Service.

On what has been the hottest day of the year so far, it would have been easy for engagement to drop, but instead, most of the young people stayed focused, got involved, and committed to learning skills that genuinely matter in real-world emergencies.

It’s not easy sitting in a small training room on a day like today, but you all did it. That counts. You should be proud of yourselves for taking part and showing that level of focus and respect for the subject.

These sessions are about more than first aid techniques, they’re about confidence, awareness, and giving young people practical skills that could help save a life.

A big thank you to Swaffham Community Centre for hosting us, and to Norfolk Youth Justice Service for the continued partnership in supporting young people across the county.

25/06/2026