Celebrations held after live-saving defibrillator installed on Wolverhampton estate
Residents on a Wolverhampton estate have celebrated after a live-saving defibrillator was installed through funding from a councillor.
Councillor Craig Collingswood paid for the item – located on the residents meeting room on the Vauxhall estate – using his ward funds.
The funds are handed out to each councillor across the city to use in their ward to provide a boost for communities and to tackle local issues.
And now Councillor Collingswood, who represents the Park ward, has used the funds to pay for a defib installed around three weeks ago.
He said: "We get allocated ward funds in Wolverhampton and every year I'm looking to see what I can spend some of the wards fund on – and put something back into the community I represent.
"The community I represent, on the Vauxhall estate off the Tettenhall Road, is very close to my heart and I regularly attend the residents association meetings.
"I've allocated funds before in the past on the estate and I noticed there's a few defibs springing up and I used to train first aid some time ago, so I know how fantastic these are.
"And I looked into it to see if I could get one for the estate which I managed to do and it's been fitted now. The residents have expressed how happy they are and in particular the residents association who at the last meeting gave me a formal thank you.
"It's a live-saving device and if it saves one person that would be fantastic, and to think I've had a hand in that is amazing."
