22/12/19 All 5 of our defibs have been checked and are in top working order should they be required over the festive period.

15/05/19  The 2019 AGM was held at 4.30pm on 15th May 2019 at The Wonston Arms.  All four committee members were present. Income to our Maintenance Fund during the year 2018/19 amounted to £190 and expenditure amounted to £232.  Only minor expenditure is anticipated for the coming year.  Our next major expenditure will be 2020/21 when the electrode pads and batteries will require replacing on all five defibrillators.  Anyone wishing to receive a copy of the Minutes please e-mail wonstonaedproject@gmail.com

08/04/19 Today all five of our locations were visited and the cabinets cleaned inside and out, locks were lubricated and resident spiders were evicted!  The defibrillators were checked and battery life was within expectations - 50% or greater remaining.  These are designed to last for 4 years and so are performing well.  All electrode pads are in date.  We're in good shape in case of emergency.

24/2/19  Many thanks to Sue Lane for donating £25 to our maintenance fund.  The batteries on our devices will need replacing in a couple of years which will be a considerable expense.  With inflation our fund actually shrinks every year so donations such as Sue's do help offset this loss.

17/1/19 Our newly designed website is now online.  It conforms to security requirements made by search engines such as Google for websites to have encryption to protect visitors.  You were perfectly safe before - even more so now!  https://www.wonston-cpads,org

22/12/18 Today all of the defibrillators had their electrode pads replaced. The new pads are certified until 31/12/20 when they will be replaced once again. The cost of these parts was £198 which has come from our maintenance fund. All five of our cabinets are checked weekly by local volunteers to make sure that they are all available 24/7 365 days a year. Thank you to all of our volunteers!

15/10/18 A huge thank you to everyone who attended the Wonston Community Cafe today where the marvellous sum of £165 was raised to add to our maintenance fund. Thank to all of the ladies who worked so hard to make the delicious cakes and who served those attending.

15/10/18 This is the date of our next fundraising event. Those lovely people who run the Wonston Community Cafe are supporting our maintenance fund by giving the proceeds of this month's cafe to us. Lots of yummy cakes, tea and coffee galore at The Wonston Arms from 0930 to 1200. We hope to see you there.

12/08/18 The AGM of the Wonston Villages AED Project was held at the Wonston Arms at 4.30pm on Thursday 12th July 2018. Present were Rob Parker, Matt Todd and Michael Collett. Apologies were received from Tom Coleman due to harvesting. During the year we have paid out £116.50 for electrical work but have received £67 from the proceeds of a fundraising quiz at the Wonston Arms. We will have further expenditure in the coming year as all five defibrillators will require electrode pads replacing. If anyone would like a copy of the Minutes of this meeting please e-mail brightlands100@gmail.com

3/6/18 A big ‘Thank You’ to everyone who took part in the quiz last night at The Best little Pub in Hampshire. In spite of Derek’s fiendishly difficult questions the winners ran out with 50 scored out of a possible 80. A great effort! Extra thanks are due to the winners who generously donated their cash prize to the defibrillator fund. The evening topped up our fund by £67. Mind you, at the end we all felt as if we’d done 7 rounds against The Beast from The Chase! Those questions were not normal pub quiz questions!

12/04/18 I have today completed the Annual Checks on all five of our CPADS as required by Community Heartbeat Trust. All five cabinets have been checked for safety and the defibrillators have been battery and consumables checked. All cabinets have been cleaned and polished inside and out. We're in the best possible shape should an emergency occur.

10/04/18 To offset the effect of inflation on our maintenance fund we are holding a Pub Quiz at The Wonston Arms on Saturday 2nd June 2018 starting at 8pm. It's only £2 per person to enter and it's going to be a fun evening. Please make the effort to be there. There will be a need to replace the sticky pads in all five of our defibrillators during the coming year so we will be spending some of our funds. Thank you in advance!

02/04/18 I'm pleased to report that the green light has been restored to the Wonston Arms cabinet. We needed a new transformer which Community Heartbeat Trust very kindly supplied at no cost to us. Thank you CHT!

03/03/18 The green light is once again out on the Wonston Arms cabinet. This does not affect the operation of the defibrillator which is being regularly checked and has a battery in good condition. It's just a problem with the pub's electrics which are slightly older than the landlord! Normal service will resume when we find a friendly electrician to take a look.

01/01/2018 A very Happy New Year to all of our sponsors. Thankfully no one has needed to use our defibrillators but it is good to know that they are not far away if we do need one. Please make sure that you know the five locations just in case you can fetch one in an emergency.

20/9/17 Check our Useful Info page for the signs of SEPSIS. It can kill almost as quickly as a cardiac arrest.

30/8/17 The heater on the Wonston Arms cabinet has now been reconnected to the mains supply and the green light is now displaying again. All of our cabinets are once more fully functional.

13/8/17 You may have noticed that the green light is out on the cabinet at The Wonston Arms. There's no cause for concern. The power has been turned off for a while whilst some further work is carried out to stop the defib cabinet fusing the lights in the pub! The cabinet still opens and the defib itself is still fully operational.

19/6/17 Our first AGM was held today at The Wonston Arms and was attended by all four members of the Project Committee. They are Rob Parker (Chairman) representing Sutton Scotney, Tom Coleman (Secretary) representing Norton, Matt Todd (Treasurer) representing Wonston and Michael Collett (Fundraiser) representing Stoke Charity and Hunton.

Whilst we have sufficient funds for the maintenance of our equipment for the foreseeable future, concern was raised that, with inflation running at 2.4% pa, we are effectively losing money on our funds in the current account. There are problems investing community funds and so it was agreed that we would run small community events each year to raise just sufficient to compensate for the inflation. 

Other topics discussed were our relationship with the Community Heartbeat Trust, the future of our website and ways of continuing communication with our community.

Matt requested a further Awareness Training Session to be held in The Wonston Arms in the autumn and this will be arranged.

The three principal committee members offered themselves for re-election and were duly elected for the coming year.

In summary our Project has, thanks to our amazing community, been an outstanding success and is now complete apart from weekly checks and periodic maintenance of the equipment. Consumables are programmed for replacement according to the manufacturers' schedules. We now just need to look after our equipment and one another!

19/5/17 A big thank you to all residents who gave up their Friday evening to attend our second Awareness Training Session at the Victoria Hall. We recorded 40 names so we are very pleased with your response. For anyone unable to attend then please visit our Online Learning pages where you will find the relevant information in video form.

24/4/17 Mobile phone signals have been tested today at all five of our CPAD locations. There is an acceptable phone signal from at least three networks at each location. 'Acceptable' means that you will be able to call 999 or 112. You probably won't be able to download your e-mails! If your particular mobile phone network does not have a signal then it will join one of the others for the purposes of the 999 / 112 call. The full test results:

We found that all five locations have a mobile phone service from at least three networks. The three main networks are EE (also used by BT, Virgin and Plusnet), O2 (also used by Sky, Tesco and Giff Gaff) and Vodafone. The results showing signal strengths from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent) are as follows:

Sutton Scotney - EE 2 / O2 4 / Vodafone 3

Wonston - EE 1 / O2 3 / Vodafone 3

Stoke Charity - EE 2 / O2 2 / Vodafone 2

Hunton - EE 1 / O2 2 / Vodafone 2

Norton - EE 2 / O2 5 / Vodafone 5

At this time we have not been able to test the 3 (Three) network. However, if your 3 phone is on 3G or 4G then it will connect to one of the other networks if it has no signal and you need to dial 999 or 112.

19/4/17 Following a question raised at our Awareness Training Session we will soon be carrying out mobile phone network tests to establish which networks have a signal at our CPAD locations. As long as at least one network has a signal then a '999' or '112' emergency call will be connected. Full results will be published soon.

11/4/17 Thank you to all those who attended our first defibrillator awareness training session held at Norton Park Hotel. We had 30 people attend, including both residents and employees from local businesses. It was good to see some children with us as they are very quick on the uptake and could help in an emergency. I feel that we all gained some confidence from the training which included CPR and use of a defibrillator. Thanks to Paul Abbott our excellent trainer and to Eryl Holt for being our first volunteer. Below are a few images from the session which I hope will encourage others to attend the next session at Victoria Hall, Sutton Scotney at 7.30pm on Friday 19th May 2017.