With thousands of people attracted to Richmond Green each year, particularly across a summer, there seems a pressing need to help improve survival rates from out-of-hospital cardiac arrests by
having a Defibrillator installed at the heart of this lovely open space. FoRG has resolved to provide The Green with its own external, publicly accessible (24/7) Defibrillator unit.
having a Defibrillator installed at the heart of this lovely open space. FoRG has resolved to provide The Green with its own external, publicly accessible (24/7) Defibrillator unit.
Funded wholly by FoRG, this installation located – with LBRUT co-operation – on the Council Storage Hut on the corner of The Green opposite Friars Lane. To supply and maintain the unit, and provideessential community training and guidance, we’ve chosen to work with the Paul Alan Project (www.thepaulalanproject.org), a charity founded by Clare Parish in memory of her father who died of a cardiac arrest in 2022. The Project is already well-known to Richmond Council and has installed multiple defibrillators across south and west London and elsewhere. The Defibrillator unit on The Green is monitored by a pool of resident volunteer ‘defibrillator guardians’. If you wish to be one of them, and to take part in the (free) training, then please let us know by email or by joining the FoRG WhatsApp group.
