Tunstead & Sco-Ruston

  • Defibrillator Campaign Gains Momentum

    Last night, 10th October, at the Tunstead Village Hall Committee evening, the “Defibrillator for Tunstead” campaign got a little closer to its fruition. Gilly Foulds, the owner of the Horse and Groom (our village pub) made a donation to the fund.

    Every fourth Tuesday of the month, the Horse and Groom host a quiz night. The prize of 50% of the total entry fees collected, going to the winner, and 25% to the runner up. Gilly then donates the remainder to the village funds. Currently, the village is focusing upon the purchase of a defibrillator to be installed within the phone box opposite the primary school. An article published on the parish council web site describes a defibrillator and its use, and can read by following this LINK .

    The next quiz night to be held at the Horse and Groom is 24th October at 8:00pm, teams can enter for a small fee. So come along and exercise your brain cells as well as exercising your right arm (lifting glasses of delicious ale). You will have an entertaining and challenging evening, and would be contributing to the current campaign of getting a defibrillator for the village.

  • Defibrillator for Tunstead

    Tunstead Parish Council are keen to provide a defibrillator unit, and store it within the disused ‘phone box outside the primary school. The phone box will be relabelled so that everyone will recognise its new purpose. The phone box will retain is overall appearance and colour.

    A defibrillator is used on a person when they have had a cardiac arrest (heart stops beating). Every minute that passes when a person has had a cardiac arrest reduces their chances of survival by 10%. So, the quicker treatment can start the better. Having such a device to hand will help improve a person’s chances of surviving a cardiac arrest. The user will collect the device from the ‘phone box and take it straight to the patient.

    The parish council are hoping that people will come forward to be trained in its use. One of our councillors will arrange for training as part of a St. Johns recruitment evening. At this event a demonstration of the use of the AED (Automatic External Defibrillator) will be given along with a taster of what St Johns offer in both training and support for its current and prospective members.

    If you are interested in learning about the defibrillator and the St Johns organisation, please use the vote form below. Your details will not be collected, but will go towards understanding how many people would come to such an event.

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  • Phone box opposite Tunstead Primary School

    PLEASE NOTE: The deadline for comments has now past.

    Today I saw that the phone box opposite the primary school in Tunstead had a notice posted by the North Norfolk District Council.

    BT PLC wishes to remove some of the lesser used phone boxes in North Norfolk (see the Tunstead & Sco Ruston Parish Newsletter Issue 24 (dated December 2016/ January 2017). However, Parish Councillor Chris Oakes suggested that the phone box opposite Tunstead Primary School be adopted and used as a defibrillator point. To do this the Parish Council would pay £1.00, acquire the defibrillator equipment, and take over the maintenance, once the telephone equipment was removed.

    The notice attached to the inside advices that comments on this draft decision be sent in writing by 12:00 Noon on Monday 23rd January 2017 by contacting:

    Sandra Bush, PA to Corporate Leadership Team
    North Norfolk District Council,
    Council Offices
    Holt Road
    CROMER
    NR27 9EN

    email: [email protected]

     

    I hope you will find this information useful.

     

     

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