The Friends have part-funded the purchase by Pewsey Community Area Partnership of two Raizer chairs for their local Community First Responders.
Raizer Chair
The Pewsey Community Area Partnership had already raised £3,500 through donations (from local parishes and the Pewsey Area Board Health Fund) when it approached the Friends for funding. The Friends provided the remaining £2,690 required to make the purchases.
The Raizer chairs will help local Community First Responders (“CFRs”) who tend to elderly residents in the Pewsey and Marlborough areas who have had a fall – but are uninjured – by allowing a single CFR attending the call to help the person to their feet safely.
CFRs are volunteers, working to support the South Western Ambulance Service, covering a large rural area.
As Pewsey Community Area Partnership explained, when submitting their grant application to the Friends, “Low priority calls, such as falls, can take hours before an ambulance is available to respond. By enabling CFR volunteers to help those not needing an ambulance to get to their feet safely, that is a call saved that can go to a life-threatening incident. This is a win-win situation for all concerned.”
Click here for the Marlborough News article about the state-of-the-art Raizer chairs.
