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A 24hr access cabinet was installed at Gulf Petrol Station, 32 Grafton St, Northampton NN1 2NW and Mace Newsagents, 10 Mercers Row, Northampton NN1 2QL also purchased a kit.
@NNOffTheStreets posted on X (formerly Twitter): “Huge thank you to Northampton Town Council for funding these kits.”
Trudy Davies, who runs Woosnam & Davies News, in Llanidloes, Wales, purchased the town’s first bleed control kit, in August 2022 and the “first in Wales”, after reading about the initiative in Independent Retail News.
More recently Davies was one of the three finalists for the 2023 Raj Aggarwal Trophy.
During ACS’ Heart of the Community conference on 17 October, Davies took to the stage with fellow finalists and was asked by the session’s chair, Jonathan James owner of James Convenience Retail, about installing the kit at her store.
Davies said: “They can save lives or at least enable people to feel that they did everything they could to save someone.”
After the session, Davies told Talking Retail: “I want to thanks Independent Retail News for the campaign because it led to a connection with Lynne Baird who is such an inspiration and has done great work in memory of her son Daniel Baird.”
Trudy Davies
Lynne Baird founded The Daniel Baird Foundation following the fatal stabbing of Daniel Baird, in an area where no bleed control kit or trauma pack was at hand.
