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Posted on 25 January 2021
Startling UK statistics on knife crime Whilst the Home Office reported a drop in Knife and Offensive weapon offences resulting in a caution or sentence of 20% in 2020 vs 2019*, that includes a pandemic and a lockdown…
Posted on 4 January 2021
If you have the budget for a defib and cabinet, but no one to install it, do not fear! Here at Turtle we can not only supply the defib and cabinet, but we can fit it for you…
Posted on 5 April 2021
Fundraising can feel like a daunting task – particularly if you have what you perceive as a large target. However, a lot of defibs and cabinets for communities are obtained through local fundraising. Perhaps someone has needed lifesaving…
Posted on 29 March 2021
There are many ways to finance a defibrillator cabinet in your community, or even a bleed control kit, and we want to make it as easy as possible for you to be able to offer this lifesaving equipment…
Posted on 22 February 2021
Every year in the UK, 60,000 cardiac arrests occur outside of hospitals. Less than 10% of people experiencing cardiac arrests in the community survive. Yet survival rates in the community, can be as high as 75% when an…
Posted on 30 November 2020
Even with a pandemic hitting 2020 hard for over 8 months of the year, knife crime is still on the rise. During the second week of lockdown at the end of March 2020, in separate incidents – 9…
Posted on 16 November 2020
Help stem a catastrophic bleed We recently installed a bleed kit and cabinet on Hurst Street in Birmingham in conjuction with the West Midlands Police and Ambulance Service, the Daniel Baird Foundation (DBF) and Southside District BID team. …
Posted on 16 November 2020
The first ever Bleed cabinet and kit installed in Birmingham Designed to prevent people from bleeding to death while paramedics race to the scene, the UK’s first bleed control cabinet was installed in Hurst Street, Birmingham on Thursday…
Posted on 12 October 2020
Is your defib cabinet looking a little tired? Writing/Logo peeling off? Looking a bit battered by the elements? If it’s still in good working order, why not spruce it back up with one of our brilliant reflective stickers!…
Posted on 5 October 2020
Our guest blog writer this week is Mike Taylor from Abacus First Training. We asked him to write a blog on the need for defibs and cabinets in community areas such as sports centres and workplaces, and he…
Posted on 25 September 2020
Turtle Cabinet Accessories Here at Turtle we think customising your cabinets to the needs of the company or community is really important. So based on that, we provide a Turtle cabinet – heated or unheated, locked or unlocked,…
Posted on 15 September 2020
Training defibs – (re)familiarise yourself with an AED Defibrillators in schools, offices and local communities are a great idea, vital even. However, do you have enough people trained on using them? Perhaps some volunteers have moved house, left…