About Us

Community First Responders are volunteers trained by the East of England Ambulance Service in basic life support, to attend life-threatening 999 emergency calls.

Each fully trained professional volunteer on-call is dispatched by the ambulance service Emergency Operations Centre to attend and arrive at the patients location within 8 minutes. In a situation where a patient has suffered a cardiac arrest, every minute that passes decreases the patients chances of survival by 10%. In all cases where a First Responder is called an ambulance is also dispatched.

First Responder groups are self-funded and rely on kind donations and sponsors to provide us with the vital training equipment, uniforms and general running costs to stay operational. If you would like to contribute a donation, are interested in sponsoring us. please contact us.

Since the group was formed in 2004 we have attended thousands of calls and the volunteers have given over 100,000 hours of their time