OUR MISSION
The Alex Wardle Foundation Fund was created to raise awareness of SADS, and do everything possible to help prevent deaths as a result. People aren’t aware of this surprisingly common condition, or that screening for cardiovascular disease can make a difference.
What is our goal in the long run?
One of aims of the Alex Wardle Foundation is to support the supply of defibrillators in the community.
Access to an automated-external defibrillator within 8 minutes of a cardiac arrest can increases the chances of survival by 80%.
Defibrillators cost almost £2500 each, which is why you don’t see one on every street corner but it is our aim to fundraise and supply as many of these livesaving devices as we can throughout our community and beyond.
In March 2017 we were pleased to provide the first of these at The Sir Joseph Paxton Community Pub, Hunts Pond Road, Park Gate purchased by the foundation.
Above and beyond
All attendees are awarded a Level 2 certificate in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillation.
Even though training to use an AED is not compulsory, it is important to increase the awareness of the existence of the devices and decrease the fear someone may have about using one in an emergency.