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Aidan Burley MPs Diary Website of the week: Grow Your Tenner Campaign MP responds to TSA consultation Walsall Manor Hospital supports national campaign to teach all children how to save a life Aidan launches annual Christmas card competition Business awards winners decided ahead of presentation evening Aidan in the papers: MP Aidan Burley backs the Santa dash Burley welcomes current account switch service Burley backs Diabetes UK campaign Aidan in the papers: Fears over maternity unit closure How to contact Aidan Burley MP
Walsall Manor Hospital supports national campaign to teach all children how to save a life
Aidan with staff and pupils from St. Josephs Catholic Primary School who took part in the Heartstart course. Walsall Manor Hospital has played a key role in setting up the British Heart Foundations (BHF) Heartstart programme in schools across the country. The initiative teaches pupils simple skills that can help them save lives or react in a life- threatening emergency. As part of the initiative Aidan met pupils from St. Josephs Catholic Primary School who were completing the Heartstart course. The programme includes learning skills such as assessing an unconscious patient, performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), dealing with choking or serious bleeding and helping someone that might be having a heart attack. Young people of ten years and over can attend a Heartstart course. However, some emergency life saving skills like making a 999 call or placing someone in the recovery position can be learnt much earlier. The Resuscitation Council (UK) and the BHF are also campaigning for all children to learn Emergency Life Support (ELS) skills at school as part of the national curriculum. Knowing how to react in an emergency situation by carrying out procedures such as CPR can buy time needed for professional help to arrive and save the life of a loved one. The Heartstart ELS course can be undertaken without any special medical knowledge and teachers can include it in a range of different subjects including Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE), Science, Physical Education and Citizenship. Walsall Manor Hospitals Resuscitation Officer, Phil Jevon, also works as a Heartstart Training Supervisor and uses equipment and material donated by the BHF to assist schools in becoming affiliated to the Heartstart Schools Programme. Phil explained: To become affiliated to the Heartstart Schools Programme, the school needs to have a suitably qualified training supervisor. My role as training supervisor is to provide train the trainer sessions for the teachers, so that they can then teach the emergency life support skills to their pupils. I also provide advice and support should they have any queries or concerns and update their training as and when required. Aidan added Im proud to support the Heartstart initiative in my constituency; it is excellent to see this important and potentially lifesaving skill set being delivered in schools. I would encourage all local schools to follow the example of St Josephs, and take up the opportunity to become affiliated with this British Heart Foundation scheme. Information about the campaign can be found on the Resuscitation Council UKs website: www.resus.org.uk/pages/ELSstmt.htm.
Aidan with last year's Christmas card competition winner Hannah Seaman from Bridgtown Primary School in Cannock. Aidan has today launched his annual school Christmas card competition and he has invited every primary school in Cannock Chase to pick up their pens, pencils and crayons and help design his 2013 Christmas card. Since his election back in 2010, Aidan has broken with the tradition of using the standard parliamentary Christmas card and instead decided to showcase the talent of local school children from across the constituency. This year's competition is once again kindly sponsored by local employment firm Pertemps People Development Group (PPDG). Aidan has already written to every primary school in the constituency inviting pupils to take part in the competition, which this year has a theme of 'Winter Wildlife of Cannock Chase'. As with previous years, the winning design chosen by Aidan and his team will be made into a professional published card and sent as the MP's official Christmas card to 500 recipients including local schools, businesses, charities, colleagues and friends throughout the constituency - as well as the Prime Minister in 10 Downing Street! The winner will have their name, age and school printed on the inside front page of the card and will also receive a framed copy of their winning card, a certificate and a special present from the House of Commons. The closing date for entries is Friday 8th November 2013 and they can be submitted by hand or post to the MP Help Zone at 6 High Green Court, Newhall Street, Cannock, WS11 1GR. All entries should be A5 size (portrait or landscape) and drawn. Commenting Aidan said: "I am delighted once again to be able to give local pupils the opportunity to design my MP Christmas card which will go out to 500 recipients. This is the fourth year in a row I have held this competition and each year I am overwhelmed by the reaction and the standard of entries. "I'd like to say a huge thank you to Pertemps People Development Group (PPDG) for sponsoring the competition again this year as without their support this competition would not be possible. "I would also like to take this opportunity to wish all of my young constituents the very best of luck and I look forward to receiving their entries". Phil Pemble from Pertemps People Development Group added: "We are delighted to be working once again with Aidan in encouraging local schoolchildren to participate in his annual Christmas card competition. It's becoming a tradition in schools across Cannock Chase to find the design that lands on the doormat of so many important people, including the Prime Minister, and one we're delighted to be involved with."
The judges go through the business awards entries. A panel of distinguished local judges including Newlife CEO Sheila Brown OBE and Mark Shipp, Editor of the Cannock Chronicle, yesterday picked the winners of the 2013 Cannock Chase Business Awards. Picture shows the Judges sifting through the many entries. Over 75 nominations were received for the 11 prestigious awards on offer, each of which was created to recognise excellence shown by a local Cannock Chase business. Local people were encouraged to nominate businesses by completing an on-line nomination form and businesses were able to enter themselves by detailing their achievements and successes. The winning businesses will be announced at an official 'Winners Reception Evening' on Friday 25th October at the Premier Suite in Cannock. This year's event is the second instalment of the hugely popular Business Awards, organised for the first time ever last year by the Chase MP Aidan Burley in partnership with The Best of Cannock's Steve Mallows. The Awards aim to recognise and reward the important work and success of local businesses, big and small, across Cannock Chase. Last year over 75 businesses took part, winning awards in 12 categories, presented at a sit down dinner for over 250 local businessmen and women by TV Host Llewela Bailey. Commenting, Aidan said: "I would like to thank all those businesses who have entered this year's awards. I have been overwhelmed by the reaction and I know that the judges found it extremely difficult to pick the 11 winners. "These awards are my attempt to highlight the unsung businesses in Cannock Chase which are the life blood of our economy, and I look forward to seeing all the entrants at the presentation evening later this month." Steve Mallows added: "The entries have come in from businesses of all sizes from Hednesford, Rugeley and Cannock, it's great to hear about successes, and reward those businesses that are flourishing despite recent economic difficulties. Cannock Chase really does have some excellent businesses and acknowledging them is, I believe, very important."
Aidan Burley MP with Alastair Payne, Nora Smith and Lissy Milligan. Cannock Chase MP Aidan Burley donned his Santa hat to launch a local festive fundraising challenge. The fourth annual Newlife Santa Dash returns to Cannock town centre on Saturday, December 14, with runners, joggers and walkers invited to join in the festive fun to raise money to support local disabled and terminally ill children. Mr Burley will be joining participants for the one-mile pre-Christmas fundraiser, organised by Cannock-based national childrens disability charity Newlife Foundation. The charity is calling on local runners and enthusiastic fundraisers to think ahead and sign up now. Participants will be charged a 5 entry fee and asked to raise a minimum of 30 sponsorship. Past entrants will receive a 50 per cent discount on the entry fee. Newlife will provide every adult participant with a Santa suit and every child who takes part with a Santa hat. Sign up at www.newlifecharity.co.uk/events.
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