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Vango Save a Life Programme
SAVE A LIFE PROGRAMME Powered by SANDSTONE
Intro to the course
You are outdoors and a member of your party trips and cuts themselves.
It’s a life threatening bleed.
You have just 2 minutes what would you do?
Do you have the right kit?
You are walking and a member of your party has chest pains and then a heart attack.
What would you do?
This course is designed to give you a series of life saving emergency skills and show you how to use them
in real world scenarios. During a 3 hour session you will learn to save a life and test yourself in real world scenarios
guided by an experienced instructor.
Locations...
Location 1
9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm
Date: Coming Soon
Location 2
9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm
Date: Coming Soon
Location 3
9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm
Date: Coming Soon
Save a life course - £55.00 + Vat per person.
Combined Course and Kit cost: £125.00 + VAT
Each course 3 hours run twice a day
Course Instructors
Tim Bradshaw - Operations Director
An Intelligence officer turned entrepreneur with a passion for enabling resilience. Tim is a former Intelligence Officer and graduate of Sandhurst. His understanding of building resilience forms the basis of the work he carries out with clients and audiences worldwide. Combining the inspirational with the practical. He founded, and is a director of Sandstone Communications, an international leadership and trauma training consultancy. He is Chief Executive Officer of the Sandstone Foundation delivering resilience workshops to schools and young people.
Mike Hope - Chief Instructor
A former specialist communications operator for the British army and covert surveillance officer for the police service Mike has operated in hostile and harsh environments globally. On leaving the services Mike has served as a mountain rescue team leader. Trauma medicine and training have been a constant skill and requirement throughout Mikes professional and personal life. He has taught BTEC level 3 in public services and now delivers, HEAT, RTACC and first aid training.
Save A Life Kit £75.00 + VAT
This course is designed to give you a series of life saving emergency skills and show you how to use them in real world scenarios. During a 3 hour session you will learn to save a life and test your
Waterproof robust bag
In order for any kit to eff ective it has to be with you and easily accessible no matter the weather. These kits come in a roll top, hard wearing waterproof bag that can be worn on a belt or stashed in your daysack.
CAT (Combat application tourniquet)
In the event of a life threatening bleed you have just 2 minutes to save a life. You will need to apply up to 40 foot pounds of pressure and quickly. You will then need to maintain that pressure whilst you seek help. Military experience has shown that the most effective way to do this is to use a combat application tourniquet – be aware of cheap imitations.
Emergency control bandage
An elasticated pressure bandage that allows a first aide to maintain effective pressure on a wound in order to control bleeding.
Foil Blanket
Statistically casualties in the outdoors are more likely to die of hypothermia than any other injury. Having successfully treated a casualty the ability to keep them warm whilst getting them to safety is lifesaving.
Trauma scissors
In order to use an AED, deliver effective CPR or treat a wound you may need to remove clothing quickly and efficiently. Most first aid kits come with safety scissors. These are unlikely to cut through robust outdoor clothing. This kit is supplied with robust trauma scissors
Protective gloves
Personal protection from infection
CPR face shield
A simple effective shield for delivering mouth to mouth resuscitation to people you may not know.
Compression gauze
This compact bandage unravels to deliver 3.75 metres of bandage that can be used for packing wounds and controlling major injuries. It may also be used for covering partial thickness burns.
Wipes, Closure strips and tape
Essential for cleaning & closing wounds
About The Sandstone Foundation
The Sandstone Foundation SCIO inspires young people to be a part of their own solution and to focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
There is little government or private money spent in the UK in schools and colleges on attempting to fit pupils’ and students’ skills and abilities to their possible future careers.
There is even less, often none, spent on encouraging the development of the life skills which young people will require whatever career they choose, the key skills required being the maintenance of motivation, resilience in adversity and the maintenance of good mental health.
The Foundation seeks to fill these gaps by delivering inspirational talks and workshops to schools and colleges, which focus on: developing and maintaining a ‘becauseican’ mindset, encouraging pupils and students to learn how to ’become a part of their own solution’ by focusing on what they can (rather than what they cannot) do joining the dots between key STEM and other subjects in academic life and possible future careers how to overcome adversity and develop resilience, whatever career is selected how poor mental health can impact performance, and what to do about that.