Defib Your Club, For Life!
DefibYour Club, For Life (DYCFL) are providing a nation-wide campaign to raise awareness of Sudden Cardiac Arrest(SCA).Defib Your Club For Life is a self-funded charitable organisation strongly committed to the implementation of public access defibrillators.
Our initiative is simple, we want to educate communities on the subject of Sudden Cardiac Arrest and demonstrate how anyone can easily and safely use an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) in an effort to save a life.
The initiative was established following the death of several young athletes and officials at sporting venues in Victoria, in particular Stephen Buckman, a 19yo player who died at football training in May 2010. Off duty MICA Paramedic, Andrew White (Founder of DYCFL), was in attendance when Stephen collapsed. Andrew and a team of club supporters fought hard to save his life, unfortunately without success.
With 21 years of Paramedic experience to draw upon, it is Andrew’s belief that Stephen may have survived had a Defibrillator been at hand. Detrimental to the outcome, Stephen wasn’t defibrillated until after the first ambulance arrived some 22 minutes after he collapsed.
Defib Your Club For Life aim to assist sporting clubs by providing them with a solution to this kind of risk. By owning an AED and participating in an education program we hope to equip clubs with the vital tools to react if their own emergency occurs. We hope to allow clubs to be less reliant on emergency services response times and more confident in implementing an action plan that will help to save lives.
How your club can get involved.
Register via website – www.defibforlife.org.au or call 1300 880 309
We will seek to support your club or organisation by providing a number of solutions for your club.
We may be able to access funds from funding bodies to help supplement the clubs contribution.
It costs $2,350 (GSTexempt) for DYCFL to provide this all-inclusive defibrillator program to clubs or organisations. Alternatively, if your club has already fundraised you can “Purchase” the defibrillator package immediately by going to the Purchase link on our website. An invoice will be forwarded along with details of the delivery process. We can also provide individualized tax receipts upon request.
As a new initiative, we can now offer your club a “Lease” arrangement over three years. This arrangement (subject to approval) will see a unit implemented at your club now with ownership of the unit following 36 monthly payments. The overall package inclusions remain the same.
If you have any further enquiries please contact Sue Buckman on 1300 880 309. Alternatively you can email us at info@defibforlife.org.au with any queries to ensure your needs are met.
DefibYour Club, For Life (DYCFL) Letter - Click Here
DefibYour Club, For Life (DYCFL) Press Release - Click Here
DefibYour Club, For Life (DYCFL) Brochure - Click Here
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