I have the Scottish Mountain Bike Leaders Association, Trail Cycle Leader qualification and to quantify it I am required to have a recognised First Aid qualification. So on 28th – 29th May 2011 I attended the Wilderness First Responder course held at Bedgebury Forest, Kent for the first time.
I am currently serving in H M Armed Forces and therefore have to undertake quite a rigorous training assessment each year. However this is not a civilian recognised qualification as it is aimed towards operational life saving techniques.
The Wilderness First Responder course has given me greater self confidence in my ability to assess, react, control and maintain first aid on a casualty(s) in any given situation; not just in the Wilderness situation.
I will definitely be returning for  refresher days and have passed on details to colleagues who also require this qualification.

Thank you Andy and the team; keep up the great work.

Kev Young

SSgt Royal Signals, Army

The Caravan & Motorhome Club has been working with Emergency Life Support Team for many of years, initially to ensure new staff were suitably certificated before they started work on Club sites. Due to the quality, relevance and value of the training delivered by Andy and his team, ELST are now the major provider for The Caravan Clubs training needs. Comments from Club colleagues who have attended ELSTs training include.

• Refreshingly different from other courses attended – full marks
• Well presented with a common sense approach
• Extremely informative, I’ve learned a huge amount, thank you
• Very impressive course and teaching techniques
• Gave me confidence in my response to an emergency situation
• Best course I have ever done
• Very professionally presented and well suited to our needs on a caravan site
• Brilliant – relevant – has taken away the mystery of first aid and I am now more likely to try to help
• A practical course which applied to our job and work place situations
• Enthusiasm and dedication shown by the trainer
• Easy to understand, plain language – very good
• Clear and precise, well put across
• Extremely beneficial
• Good knowledge of subject and made you at ease in the practical exercises
• Very rewarding

Rebecca Whipp

Training Manager , The Caravan & Motorhome Club