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£999 TEAM CELEBRATES DEFIB SUCCESS
IN early February 2018, John Wood from Oughtibridge was enjoying a drink in the local pub when one of his friends, Andy Clarke, took ill and very suddenly passed away. The events of that night led John and his friends to seek to raise funds and buy a defibrillator accessible to the local community in memory of Andy.
who volunteered to become the fundraising coordinator and was essential to the success with her previous fundraising experience. Community groups including Oughtibridge Brass band, Seven Hills Harriers ladies running club, Oughtibridge War Memorial Cricket Club, and Oughtibridge Wesleyan Reform Chapel all held fundraising events or made donations to the cause, helping in any what they could.
John went to his nearest ambulance station, Middlewood in Sheffield, to seek advice on Two local electricians, Nathan how to go about his project. Younge and Paul Burkinshaw of Derek Milner Sheffield It was there where he met Si- Electric, agreed to install the mon Froggatt, a paramedic CPADs free of charge. The first who was on his lunch break defibrillator was fitted outand coincidentally lived in the side the M&A Oughtibridge same village. Chemist on Bridge Hill. The two of them, with the The community aimed to raise agreement and support of an initial £999 to apply for a Andys’ family set about fund- community grant for a subsiraising and dedicating the de- dised cost form the Yorkshire fibrillator in his memory. And Ambulance Service Charitable so the £999 team was formed Fund. The fundraising was so with the local community ral- successful that the community lying behind the group. raised just over £5,000. They received great support from numerous individuals, particularly Anna Martin,
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