About First Aid Champions

For more than 100 years, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has been a world-leader in establishing first aid training standards, including developing procedures and guidelines. We have used our extensive experience to help shape and improve first aid around the world1.  

As part of the world’s largest provider of first aid, the British Red Cross educates tens of thousands of people in the UK every year. This helps to build resilience within communities and prepares people to cope with all types of emergency. 

No, teachers and educators don’t need any training to teach first aid. We know that for some, the idea of teaching first aid can be quite daunting, but don’t worry, at the British Red Cross our approach is simple. In this toolkit you’ll find all the supporting materials, ideas and resources you need to teach first aid effectively.  

You’ll find a variety of engaging and impactful tools for you to pick and choose from. This includes activities, films, PowerPoint presentations, quizzes and photographs to create engaging first aid learning sessions.  

The resources are structured into a modular online toolkit to make them easy to navigate and to pick and choose content to design sessions that are right for your group.  The modules follow a ‘learn and practise’ approach, with interactive content and downloadable teaching activities to help children develop understanding and then try out what they have learned.  The primary resource includes: 

• Introductory activities that introduce the Red Cross, the characters the children will learn with throughout the resources and why first aid is important 
• First aid skills - explore eight different first aid skills and what key action to take when someone needs first aid 
• Kindness and coping – focus on what inspires people to help, emotions and how to keep calm, decision making and words of kindness and comfort 
• Safety - learn how to call 999, keep safe when helping others and spot dangers 

• Share - ideas for children to share their learning with others 

There is also a My groups section that offers you the opportunity to register your groups and track their progress as well as teaching guidance and support.  

The resources are structured into a modular online toolkit to make them easy to navigate so you can pick and choose content to design sessions that are right for your group. The modules follow a ‘learn and practise’ approach, with interactive content and downloadable teaching activities to help young people develop understanding and then try out what they have learned. The secondary resource includes: 

• Introductory activities that introduce the Red Cross and why first aid is important 

• First aid skills - explore seventeen different first aid skills and what key action to take when someone needs first aid 
• Helping others – learn what inspires people to help and the qualities of those that do help 
• Safety and well-being – focus on calling 999, emotional and practical first aid, staying safe and coping techniques to help keep calm  
• Share and remember - ideas for young people to consolidate and then share their learning with others. 

There is also a My groups section that offers you the opportunity to register your groups and track their progress as well as teaching guidance and support.