The campaign, led by local mom by Emily Fereday who started Fereday’s First Response, is hoping to get a bleed control kit into every primary school across Dudley, with 55 so far being donated to schools, and with the help of a local councillor, two more have now been donated to Priory and Wrens Nest Primary Schools.
The kits which are used to seal wounds following an accident, have been proven to save lives and stop people potentially bleeding to death whilst emergency help is on the way.
Emily Fereday, Founder of Fereday’s First Response said: “A massive thank you to both Priory Primary and Wrens Nest Primary for meeting with me and Keiran recently to discuss the work being done to improve safety locally.
It’s great that they have agreed to have these kits at their sites, and I know this will make a massive difference to further improving safety in the event of an accident.
I’m determined to get as many of these kits out across Dudley as possible, and I want to see every school not only having one, but engaging with their pupils on how to use them and how this could potentially save a life”.
Keiran Casey, Councillor for Castle and Priory Ward said: “This is a great campaign and I’m really grateful to Emily for the work she is doing, as well as her ambition to make sure every single school across Dudley has one of these kits.
I’ve worked for many years with organisations such as the Daniel Baird Foundation to try and get these kits into as many businesses and publicly accessible places as possible, so the work Emily is now doing, is brilliant, and I’m so glad I can support this too.
I’ll continue to do everything I can locally to continue to fight to improve community safety for all residents working with the brilliant people and organisations we have”.
