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Who are we? 

Hi there! We are the QMUL First Aid Society and we are also a St John Ambulance Student Volunteering unit!

As a society, we spend our time learning about and teaching first aid to our university community, whilst those of us in the unit volunteer providing medical cover at public events such as (but not limited to): Football as West Ham/Emirates/Others, London Marathon, Notting Hill Carnival, and London Pride!

We are an amazing and friendly society that puts the fun in teaching skills that you WILL use. Join us in keeping our university community as safe as possible, and who knows, you may even save a life.

What is St John Ambulance (SJA)?

St John Ambulance is the UK's leading First Aid charity, providing volunteer first aid at thousands of events around the country every year, as well as lobbying for wider first aid training access - such as getting first aid on the national curriculum. SJA also operates in Wales and other international branches exist in Canada, Asia, Australia, Africa and many more!

Volunteers can train as Community First Responders, Emergency Responders, Emergency Ambulance Crews, and other additional roles such as cycle responders, medical response teams (working in difficult/crowded spaces), and other non-clinical roles too! Volunteering with SJA IS possible for international students at QMUL so feel free speak to the committee for more details!

What do we do?

Our society is focused on increasing awareness and knowledge of First Aid in our university community. We do this through weekly sessions, fundraising and training events for our local and wider communities, and interaction with other societies! But, our lives aren't completely filled with First Aid so we also have loads of social events for you to look forward to!

Volunteers in the QMUL Group provide hundreds of volunteer hours at events across London and the South East and hold clinical as well as managerial roles on these events. This year we aim to increase and diversify the skills we have within the unit to help us cover even more events as well as provide our student volunteers with more transferable skills that will help them in life and support their CVs. We also want to bring these skills over to our training so our society members will benefit too!

Committee (2025/2026)

President/Student Volunteering Group Lead: Connor Osborne 

Vice President: Gurkirit Singh

Treasurer: Alexandre Duponcheele

Training Lead: Dominic Britton

Events Lead: Aatir Saadqain

Outreach Officer: Wei Wang 

Welfare Reps: Aurora Bonoan and Amir Karimov

Social Secretary:  Aatir Saadqain

Fundraising Lead: Amir Karimov

IT Lead: Mariia Yakymenko

Logistics Lead: Elliot Crookbaine

Student Volunteering Representative: Gurkirit Singh