Waterhouses Community First Responders We now have a Webshop where you can shop on-line with over 150 national retailers including..... Littlewoods Direct, Thorntons, Marks and Spencer, HMV, Waterstones Carphone Warehouse, Early Learning Centre, BT Asda.......and many more Play.com is as cheap as anywhere for your MP3 music downloads, as is cartridgepeople.com for your ink cartridges ~ but remember you must visit their website via our store for us to get the commission. Each time you shop, WCFRG gets a commission. You pay exactly the same price as on the retailers main sites, often lower than on the high street and the commission we earn (up to 12%) comes out of the retailers profit margin. Visit our webshop today by clicking on the button below. Happy shopping, and thank you for shopping with the WCFRG webshop Christmas Cheese & Wine Evening Friday 5th December 7.00 pm ~ 9.00 pm Community Bungalow Waterfall Lane Come and meet your Responders Demonstrations of Resuscitation Look around the ambulance Fundraising & Sponsorship

It is a common misconception that First Responder Groups are kitted out with ambulance, equipment, supplies & uniforms paid for out of public funding. We would like to emphasise that all First Responder Groups are entirely voluntary: including the raising of funds to get on the road, and without the support of grant awarding bodies and the generosity of the local community, none of us would exist. The training courses are provided free of charge by the Ambulance Service, and once a Group goes live, any consumable supplies used are replaced by them, but otherwise every penny of the (not inconsiderable) cost of buying, equipping and runnning our ambulance has had to be raised by ourselves.

We do of course contribute in no small way to the response time target the Ambulance Service is required to achieve.

We are pleased to announce that we now have a fully kitted out car, thanks both to many generous donations from people in our local community, and to grants & sponsorship awarded to us as a result of the tremendous work done by Jean, our fundraiser, in making applications to various grant awarding bodies

"On behalf of all the Waterhouses Community First Responders, Trustees & Volunteers, I would like to express our heartfelt thanks to all those who have supported us in any way, and have helped us to get this valuable community asset, literally on the road"

Wilson Young
Chairman WCFRG

A big Thank You to our mysterious benefactor who visited Waterhouses on 3rd July 2008

The most recent fundraising event done on our behalf was the Three Peaks Challenge which was tackled by an intrepid band from the Jervis Arms in Oncote (a good place to eat by the way) who raised over £1000 for us. Thank you everybody who did this climb, and thank you to all those who sponsored them.

If you dont know what an epic undertaking this is, it involves climbing the three highest mountains in the UK within 24 hours ~ read more about it here When they have recovered I will try and get somebody to do me an article & photographs to put here.

Thanks to our Young Farmers who raised over £1000 for us at a Slave Auction held at The Green Man in Bottomhouse last night. A precise figure when Bill has done all the adding up.

We propose putting the money towards the purchase of a ‘Thumper’. More properly called a Lucas Device, this is an amazing piece of medical equipment that performs perfect CPR (cardio pulmonary resuscitation) - a life- saving procedure in which first responders are trained extensively. 

The Thumper provides exactly the pressure and rhythm appropriate for the patient whether they’re a 16 stone man or 8 stone woman, and can carry on working (powered by a gas cylinder) at this exhausting task, freeing up a pair of hands for other vital tasks, until further help arrives.

We have had numerous individual donations of less than £50, as well as contributions put in our collecting boxes around the district.
We thank all our supporters, both great and small.