Fundraisers from the Volunteer Rifleman Arms will join members of the Council and SouthGate Bath to raise funds for local defibrillators with an afternoon of carols and songs tomorrow.
The SouthGate Bath Centre Management team are supporting the fundraising event (19th December, from 12.30 to 5.30pm) in the shopping mall at SouthGate to raise funds so that more life-saving devices can be installed in the city centre.
Defibrillators are life-saving devices used when someone is in cardiac arrest and fighting for their life.
They can be accessed for use by the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week after the access code is given by South West Ambulance Service through a 999 emergency call to their operations Centre.
Bath & North East Somerset Council has been supporting and assisting the installation of defibrillators within and around Bath city centre.
The first was installed in Upper Borough Walls, with funds raised by the Volunteer Rifleman Arms in September and a second in Southgate in November paid for by the SouthGate management.
There are three other defibrillators available in Bath, one at The Recreation Ground, one at the Bath Tennis Club in Weston and the other at St John’s Primary School in Oldfield.
Defibrillators with limited access have also been installed in some sports club buildings in Bath.
The Volunteer Rifleman Arms collection is continuing, so that further defibrillators can be installed in and around Bath.
A device will be installed before Christmas in Larkhall and another on the London Road in the New Year.