Health and wellbeing
St Andrews First Aid offer free talks and demonstrations on first aid for schools, community groups and charities. British Red Cross also offer free educational workshops to build life skills and resilience.
First aid talks and demonstrations for your community from St Andrews.
Free educational workshops from British Red Cross.
Mental health for volunteer responders
Lifelines Scotland provides advice and learning resources on how to stay well and support your colleagues, through all stages of volunteering. They have created the Staying Well Road Trip, a free online course for volunteers covering the factors that protect or threaten wellbeing, how to recognise the warning signs of injury and what we can do to look after our physical and mental health. This module can also be run in a group session.
Staying Well Road Trip from Lifelines Scotland.
Public Health Scotland’s Learning Zone
Community groups can access free online self-directed learning from Public Health Scotland which covers a wide range of subjects including health inequalities, making services inclusive, and British Sign Language awareness.