The Club applied for a District Grant (1:1 support) to improve the coverage of Automated External Defibrillators (AED's) in our local community.
The original intent of the project was to install Tracking Technology on AEDs. The Heart of The Nation (HoTN) mobile phone application allows the user to find an AED in close proximity.
However, Heart of The Nation (HoTN) now includes the potential for “crowd sourced” registration of existing AEDs so they can be seen on the HoTN App.
Numerous trials to register existing AED's failed, with significant effort to register at least 6 AEDs in the local community, however without success to date.
As an alternative, the Club approved the purchase of a new AED and installed into the local shopping centre (Bartley Terrace Shopping Centre).
This AED can now be seen on the HoTN app!!!
An intrepid trio from the Club did some ground work to get everything moving.
Westy contacted a mate of his who works for the company that provides AED's to industry - we got a favourable price.
Len made contact with shop owners in the Bartley Terrace Shopping Centre, and then with the Centre management to get their approval for the installation.
Barry provided much-needed support and organisation skills to bring an idea into action!
So a mini-working bee was organised, the AED collected and installed.
A logo, QR code made into a sign and pasted on the cabinet finished the job.
Ahhh, also the District Grant paperwork had to be done and returned to the District Foundation Grant Chair, this all had to be done before 30 June 2024.
The payment was in our account within a couple of days.