Vale & Fosseway Responders

We are the Vale of Belvoir Community First Responders. We are proud to serve the Vale of Belvoir and surrounding villages as volunteers responding to life threatening 999 emergency calls in our spare time in conjunction with East Midlands Ambulance Service.

Vale First Responders has been in existence since April 2005 and we have attended well over 3,000 emergency calls since then. Made up entirely of volunteers, we are a team of qualified, experienced and active responders. As a registered charity we have a Board of Trustees made up of both Responders and Non-Responders bringing an appropriate balance to our internal governance.

Virtually all of our equipment is provided through voluntary donations made by local individuals, town and parish councils and through our own fundraising actives.

Simple things save lives. Our team are sent to emergency calls by the Ambulance Service control room and our volunteers are trained and equipped to provide life-saving treatments prior to an ambulance arriving. Because we live and work in the local area we are often at the scene of an emergency call prior to the arrival of an ambulance meaning that this vital life-saving work can start sooner than it otherwise would.