Overview

• Short, 15-minute hands-on classes will run outside the Market Place entrance on Thursday, 16 October, from 11am to 3pm, led by crews from Bolton Central Fire Station.
• Further demonstrations are scheduled at Bolton Central Library and Farnworth Leisure Centre to make training accessible across the borough.
• Sessions are free, drop-in and require no booking, with adult and child manikins available for practice.
• Local employers are being urged to let staff step out for 15 minutes, and parents and carers are welcome to attend.
• The initiative forms part of a national campaign led by Resuscitation Council UK with the British Heart Foundation and St John Ambulance, responding to more than 40,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests a year in the UK where survival remains under one in ten, and early CPR and defibrillation can more than double survival chances.