Henfield Village are finalists in a glittering National Awards event in the 'Community Heroes' category, organised by St John Ambulance. The village has been nominated by HART (Henfield Area Response Team) because the volunteers have been so overwhelmed by the local support sent their way - to the tune of £100,000 over the last 10 years! The event is hosted by Kirsty Gallagher and supported by the Daily Mail.
Dave Fletcher from HART said; "We are absolutely thrilled to hear that Henfield Village are through to the finals! It is such an honour to get through the tough nomination stage of this National Award and the ceremony in July will be incredible. We are thrilled that our nomination has reached the finals - it's a big 'thank you' to Henfield from us, without their support we could not continue to save lives in the village. We ARE a village of life-savers in Henfield and we're very proud of that!"
Henfield Village will be represented at the ceremony at the Lancaster Hotel in London on 1 July by Ray Osgood from Henfield Parish Council, Gyles Culver, landlord of the White Hart Pub and Emma Osman from BN5 magazine, as well as several of the HART responding team.
You can find out more about the award here:
https://www.sja.org.uk/everydayheroes/finalists/community-hero.aspx
And here's the nomination from HART that so impressed the judges and takes HENFIELD to the finals:
Village of Henfield
Henfield is a village in the county of West Sussex with a population of around 6,000 people. Since 2004, the community has raised over £100,000 to fund their local community responder group.
The money they have raised has had a huge impact on the local community. They have managed to pay for 23 public access defibrillators, which have already been used in 10 cardiac arrest incidents.
Their fundraising efforts have also funded an active response system that has so far responded to 2,400 emergency 999 calls on behalf of the local ambulance service, reducing serious emergency call response times by an average of 10 minutes a call.
If that wasn’t enough, they have funded an emergency kit for each responder, which includes an individual AED, plus an exhibition trailer and vehicle which provides ongoing education to local groups.
Good luck to the HART responders and well done Henfield Village!