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ST JOHN AMBULANCE AUSTRALIA

AT A GLANCE

St John Ambulance Australia is a self-funding charitable organisation, active in all States and Territories, dedicated to helping people in sickness, distress, suffering or danger.

We have been active in Australia for over a hundred years, and internationally are part of a wider organisation with a long and honourable history.

Communities across the country benefit from the charitable services our volunteers provide.

Our Operations volunteers, in their familiar black and white uniforms, provide first aid coverage at public events and wherever crowds gather.

Non-uniformed Community Care volunteers support the vulnerable within our community in need of friendship, compassionate care or a little help.

In Western Australia and the Northern Territory we run the public ambulance service. Paid and volunteer ambulance officers provide critical response and non-emergency patient transport.

Volunteers also support crucial fundraising and awareness programs.

We service the needs of business, industry, home and family with our quality range of first aid kits and products.

And St John is Australia's largest first aid trainer, teaching practical life-saving skills to around a quarter of a million people each year.

Who are we?

We are ordinary people doing extraordinary things in our local communities - people with a commitment to practical and compassionate caring - including:

  1. around 11,000 first aid volunteers, including some 3,700 Cadets (11-18 years) and over 900 Juniors (8-10 years);
  2. around 2,000 non-uniformed community care volunteers, providing friendship, reassurance, survival skills and literacy support programs to those in need;
  3. more than 2,000 paid and volunteer ambulance officers in Western Australia and the Northern Territory;
  4. around 2,500 accredited, highly qualified first aid instructors; and
  5. nearly 350 paid staff members.

We aim always to fund our activities as far as possible from our own efforts, primarily through the marketing of first aid training and kits, with additional funding provided by private donations, bequests, trusts and corporate sponsorship.

St John is a Royal Order of Chivalry, with the Queen as Sovereign Head. The Governor General is the Prior in Australia.

Where are we?

In all States and Territories including Norfolk Island, our far-reaching network of volunteers and first aid trainers criss-crosses the big cities and small country towns.

We provide:

  1. over three quarters of a million hours of voluntary service each year;
  2. a capable and professional first aid service at community and public events;
  3. treatment for nearly 100,000 casualties across Australia in 2000;
  4. rigorous in-house training through annual skills maintenance programs to help volunteers stay at the cutting edge of first aid practice;
  5. a flexible and responsive force to assist with national disaster relief activities;
  6. quality first aid training from basic resuscitation skills to advanced life support and remote area survival;
  7. specialised training for people in high-risk industries such as mining and shipping, in remote areas, and with OH&S responsibilities;
  8. first aid advice to business, industry and the community;
  9. authoritative texts on the theory and practice of first aid;
  10. community care services for the aged, the infirm, the immobile and lonely;
  11. highly professional and cost-effective ambulance services in Western Australia and the Northern Territory;
  12. hope to those in the Middle East blighted with eye disease, through our support for the St John Jerusalem Eye Hospital.

St John was the provider of first aid services to the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

St John Ambulance Australia
Caring for Life in the Community

For more information contact:
St John Ambulance Australia
Australian Office
Cnr Canberra Avenue and Dominion Circuit
PO Box 3895
Manuka ACT 2603
Tel: 02 6295 3777
Fax: 02 6239 6321
E-mail: inquiries@stjohn.org.au
Web: www.stjohn.org.au

Or contact St John in your State or Territory toll free on 1300 360 455.

If you wish to join the University of New South Wales Division of the St John Ambulance Australia, you may download the information brochure Page 1 & Page 2 for further reference. If you have any queries about joining the University of New South Wales Division, please kindly send me an email.

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