Avon Dassett Soapbox Derby returns on 22 June 2019!

The race regulations have now been published: http://www.avondassett.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/SOAPBOX-REGS-2019.pdf Entries open on 22 February.

Please could all walkers and dog walkers stay away from horses during this equine flu epidemic. The flu virus is airborne and can survive for several days. The danger is if you pet a horse that is infected and then another you could inadvertently pass the virus on. The flu virus is a rogue strain which is affecting even vaccinated horses. For those horses that are unvaccinated, young, old or pregnant the illness may be fatal.

Just to publicise the fact that Avon Dassett has a defibrillator, accessible from outside the Reading Room.

If you come across someone who has collapsed and you suspect cardiac arrest:

1. Call 999
2. Start CPR
3. There are 12 residents trained in the use of the defibrillator and their details including contact numbers are fully registered with Warwickshire Ambulance service and also with Numbers Plus who administer the call out process on their behalf.
4. When a call to 999 is placed the ambulance service decide if the defibrillator is required and if so then they will contact the trained residents in order until they find a qualified person to answer the call
5. The resident will then go and collect the machine. The cabinet is code protected but ten trained residents have the code. The code can also be obtained from the call out process.
6. The trained resident will then go to the address given by the ambulance service and attend to the patient, under their supervision. 

   The parish council ask that residents don’t try to contact any trained staff direct; residents don’t have to act and deploy the defibrillator, without support, in an emergency.

   There is a short video published by the British Heart Foundation on how to use a defibrillator you can watch here.

See this page for further details: https://www.avondassett.com/health-well-being/avon-dassett-defibrillator/