Mini First Aid York

Before we say goodbye to 2025…let’s look what we achieved together. 💚 In 2025, we trained over 30,000 parents and carers, 8,000 workplace delegates and a whopping 52,000 school children in life-saving first aid. 💚 We celebrated our 10-year business birthday at an emotional conference with birthday wishes from Giovanna Fletcher, The Unmumsy Mum and Sara Davies. 💚 Our founder Kate joined a Coppafeel trek in the Brecon Beacons in memory of her lovely friend Lisa. A huge physical and emotional challenge. Kate raised over £7,000 for the breast cancer charity. 💚 We attended the Baby & Toddler Shows across the UK, providing first aid demos and expert talks to tens of thousands of new and expectant parents. 💚 We won top awards at the BFA, Best Businesswoman, and Mother & Baby Awards and entered Elite Franchising’s Top 100 💚 In the space of a few weeks, we trained our entire network and adapted our lesson plans to reflect new CPR and choking technique guidelines introduced by the Resuscitation Council UK. 💚 Our team appeared on local radio stations across the UK this year, talking about all things first aid for babies and children and our lovely Kate collaborated with the incredible Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast. 💚 Teddy instant cold pack arrived on the shelves! 💚 We joined the awesome female-founder network, Buy Women Built - so inspiring to see what women are creating, building and doing in the business and retail world and a real honour to be part of it. 💚 Our podcast surpassed 17,000 digital downloads - blown away! 💚 Most importantly of all - none of this would be possible without the work of our network across the UK and YOU! Our amazing audience and customers who chose this year to train with us, or follow us on socials, or chat to friends and family about the work that we do. Nothing is more important than spreading the word about learning how to save a life and you have helped us do this in so many ways in 2025. Thank you 💚

Well thats a wrap, what an amazing year 2025 has been! Wishing all my customers, new and existing, a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year! Best wishes Michele and the Team x

✨ We’re up to date with the new Resuscitation Council UK guidelines

The Resuscitation Council UK has released updates to paediatric and infant life-support guidance, and we want you to know that Mini First Aid is already on it. We’re rolling out team training and updating our lesson plans to make sure everything we teach reflects the very latest evidence.

If you’ve trained with us before or gained a workplace qualification with us, don’t worry, the qualification remains valid, and the skills you learned are still safe and effective.

First aid evolves as new research emerges, and these updates simply offer techniques that may help rescuers deliver even better-quality care.

Here are some of the key changes:

💚 Baby CPR: The preferred method for infants under 1 is now a two-thumb encircling technique. This can help you achieve consistent, effective chest compression depth with less finger fatigue. Other methods (one-hand or two-hand) can still be used if age-appropriate and needed.

💚5 initial breaths, 15 compressions : 2 breaths are now recommended for paediatric BASIC life support training (previously this was only taught in advanced courses to avoid confusion).

🍇 Choking in infants: Still start with 5 back blows. If that doesn’t work, follow with 5 chest compressions using the encircling technique, which replaces the two-finger approach.

⚡️Using an AED:
• Use paediatric mode for infants and children under 25 kg (approx. under age 8 ).
• If there’s no paediatric setting, use adult mode, don’t delay.
• Pad placement guidance has been refined for clarity and effectiveness.

👌These improvements aim to make life-saving actions even more effective across all ages.

🫶🏼We’ll keep you updated as we roll out these updates in our classes, and we’ll share demonstrations on the new techniques here on our socials as soon as we have these ready.

As always, our mission is to make sure you feel confident, informed, and ready to help when it matters most 💚

Resuscitation Council UK

🥶 The weather is starting to get cold now we have reached November.

🚘 It's definitely worth knowing, or being reminded of how to keep your little ones safe in their car seat during the winter months ahead. 👍🏻💚

❗️ The straps may look tight enough over a coat but in a crash the fabric will compress and leave gaps; often enough room for a child to be thrown out of the car seat completely.

✅ Coats off, stick the heating on and cover with a blanket once they’re correctly fastened in. 🚗

We have had an absolutely fantastic day St Aelred's Catholic Primary School & Nursery. The children were amazing and now well equipped with knowledge of what to do if they need to get help or deal with an emergency 💚⛑️👌

Delighted to be back!

Announcing our 2026 spring show headline sponsor ❤️‍🩹

We're so thrilled to be welcoming back the wonderful team at Mini First Aid York 💚

Michele and the team will also be on hand throughout the day holding talks and demos!

Our April show is already set to be a must-attend event!

www.yorkshirebabyshow.co.uk

Keira Knightley, Pixie Lott, and our very own Mini First Aid founder, Kate - all recent guests on Happy Mum Happy Baby. What great company to be in! Have a watch and find out more about what we do… 💚

CPR or basic life support is *ESSENTIAL* if your baby (under 1) or child (over 1 to 18 years old) stops breathing. The 🔑 is rescue breaths and chest compressions, here are the essential steps to follow from @minifirstaid: 1. Check for danger - are they responsive? 2. Call 999 for help. 3. Open the airway and check for breathing for 10 seconds. 4. Give 5 rescue breaths. On a baby, place your mouth over their mouth and nose. On a child, pinch the nose and breathe into mouth. 5. Give 30 chest compressions. Placing 2 fingers in the centre of the chest for a baby and the heel of your hand for a child. 6. Press down to a third of the depth of the chest cavity. 7. Make sure they are on a hard surface. 8. Return to giving 2 breaths after the compressions and then repeat the pattern until help arrives. 📞 If you’re on your own, and you haven’t got your phone to hand, do a minute of CPR before going to get your phone and making the call. Book your @minifirstaid class to learn how to do CPR and practice on a mannequin so that you have the experience beforehand and share this with friends and family to help save a life. ❤️