Probus Defibrillator Campaign update

As of Sunday 23rd July.

FIRSTLY,thanks to everyone who has supported this campaign so far. In the three weeks since we launched the campaign, we have received over 40 online pledges to the value of £1,683, including £50 from Probus Knit and Natter group and £113 from the first sweep of the collection buckets.

These buckets can be found in the Comrades Club, the Hawkins Arms, Trudgian Farm Shop, the Spar shop, and Probus School Filling Station, so if you were intending to support this campaign, but couldn’t or didn’t want to do so online, then there are five options for you in the village.

This week, we have our largest donation to date, £500 from Karen Glasson’s Cornwall Council Community Chest Fund. This donation takes us to 41% of our target with two weeks to go.

Our aim is to purchase three new defibrillators, one for a new location in the centre of the village (hopefully the village hall) and two to replace the aging defibrillators at the Surgery and the Filling Station. With those three and the new one to be installed independently at Probus Primary School, we end up with a defibrillator within 300 metres of most properties in the village, and well within 300 metres for the majority. That could make a big difference in an emergency.

I appreciate that this is a big ask in the current economic circumstances as money is tight for many. Rest assured that every donation matters no matter the size.

John Denyer Editor, Probus News Magazine

To support this campaign, go to https:// www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/probusdefibrillator-campaign-2023 or use your phone camera and the QR code below.