North Warwickshire Community First Responders
NWCFR is a charity, and we attend the most serious 999 calls that the ambulance service receive. We get dispatched to category 1 and 2 calls across North Warwickshire, arriving before the regular ambulance arrives
Project Overview
NWCFR's job is simple, preserve life and attend to ill patients who may be having a cardiac arrest, stroke, fitting, chest pains, catastrophic bleeding and provide life saving interventions.
In 2026 so far, they have volunteered over 1400 hours of time and attended over 230 of the most serious calls, all in North Warwickshire. This means in 230 cases they were on scene first, attending to patients on what is typically the worst day of their life.
They need to raise £6000 to help us buy new patient monitoring equipment (this measures heart rate, blood pressure and oxygen levels) for their three Ambulance cars. These monitors help them perform the right treatment and also aids escalation if we need additional help even quicker
They are all trained volunteers who give up our time with no reward. They get no funding from the ambulance service, and rely on generous donations to keep them running.
The money will also used to upgrade the public access defibrillators you see around the streets of North Warwickshire, They are custodians of over 25 of them in the region and want to upgrade the fleet to defibrillators that can be used on any age, and are extremely easy to use.
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