Community champion Sue raises over a thousand pounds to install bleed kits across Rainham.

Following the Havering Daily article on the installation of the borough’s first bleed kit in Havering, community champion Sue Ospreay began her bid to get some of these vital life saving tools also installed across the Rainham area.

Sue who is always working for the community, told the Havering Daily:

“I never knew they existed but when I read about how important they were for the community and that they were life saving tools, I knew that we had to have some here for the Rainham area too.

“I identified three sites that I thought were the best place to have these bleed kits, Rainham Tesco, Harris Academy, and the Rainham Allotments. They are all places that have people until late hours and are focal community areas that people know well.”

Sue reached out to Julie Taylor who accesses the bleed kits from the Daniel Baird Foundation and is now working to get as many as she can.

“We have raised just over a thousand pounds which is enough for eleven bleed kits. They are really vital for our community. We all know stabbings take place but don’t really want to think of them happening on our door step. But rather than pretending they don’t happen, we need to accept that they do and be equipped the best way possible to deal with them as a community.”

Well done to Sue who is always working hard to help her local community and really is a community champion.