Lee's story

Primary school teacher Krystalla was fast asleep when she was woken up in the middle of the night by an almighty thud. Eight months pregnant with her daughter Martha at the time, she raced upstairs to discover her husband Lee collapsed on the bathroom floor.

Before he had a cardiac arrest, Lee was fit and healthy with no family history of heart problems. Krystalla realised Lee had stopped breathing, so she dialled 999 and began CPR. Thankfully, she was trained in the lifesaving procedure.

The emergency call handler instructed her to keep going until the paramedics arrived. For Lee, it was the beginning of a long road to recovery – an opportunity he may never have had without CPR.

Easy, free, online CPR training that saves lives

You never know when you’ll need to give someone CPR, but many of us will see a cardiac arrest in our lifetime. Over 30,000 people have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the UK each year. Less than one in ten survive.

Although they mostly occur in the home, surveys suggest only half of people in the UK say they’d be able to perform CPR if a loved one had a cardiac arrest in front of them.

Thanks to your support, we’re training more people in CPR with RevivR – our fast, free and easy-to-use online training tool. RevivR gives more people who have a cardiac arrest a fighting chance at survival, keeping families like Lee, Krystalla and Martha together for longer.