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1. Complete Space relies on RAPAID for complete safety

   At RAPAID, we’re doing everything we can to equip as many UK locations as possible with our emergency bandage kits – so it’s always fantastic to see individuals getting involved to drive us towards our goal. Recently, Peter Emery, director of Middlesex-based design company, Complete Space, took on the responsibility of keeping his workers and […]

   09/04/2024
2. CT Insight speaks with our co-founder, Alex Chivers

   At RAPAID, our mission is to put our life-saving emergency bandage kits into public places where any member of the public can use them to stop the bleed, without the need for any specialist training. It’s an initiative that could prevent casualties from becoming fatalities following a terror attack, helping them to survive in those […]

   26/03/2024
3. Ploughing experience into positive change – we talk to our Patron, Travis Frain

   On 22 March 2017, an individual drove a hired car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in London, before exiting the vehicle and attacking nearby people with a blade. He killed six people and injured around fifty others. Amongst those injured was Travis Frain, who, at the time, was a 19-year-old university student. Travis recovered from […]

   22/03/2024
4. RAPAID team deploys emergency bandages kit after street stabbing incident

   RAPAID’s mission to install our emergency bandages kits in black cabs throughout UK cities is all about making sure help is at hand wherever and whenever it is needed. And for one of our team, that moment was right outside a hospital when a young man was stabbed following an altercation in the street. Colette […]

   06/03/2024
5. Bandaging Your Tax Blues by Donating Directly to RAPAID

   In a world where emergencies can strike at any time, having access to immediate medical assistance can make all the difference. That’s why we’re donating as many RAPAID kits as possible to taxis up and down the UK to help stop the bleed wherever necessary. And whilst we’re supporting your communities with our life-saving emergency […]

   01/03/2024
6. Plymouth becomes latest city to equip taxi cabs with military grade emergency bandages

   Plymouth has become the latest UK city where taxi cabs will carry life-saving emergency bandages kits designed to stem serious blood loss. This comes after the Oxford based charity RAPAID donated and installed the kits in taxi cabs outside Plymouth railway station this week. The move, which follows the successful roll out in London, Oxford, […]

   01/02/2024
7. 2000 London Black Cabs Now Carry RAPAID

   RAPAID hit a major milestone today as it equipped it’s 2000th London taxi with a life-saving emergency bandage kit, just nine days before the fourth anniversary of the 2019 London Bridge terrorist attack in which two people – Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt – tragically lost their lives. The charity’s founder Alex Chivers presented taxi […]

   11/12/2023
8. RAPAID and British Transport Police Join Forces to #StopTheBleed

   Over the past few months, we’ve been equipping as many of London’s black cabs as possible with our life-saving emergency bandage kits, to enable those on the scene to #stopthebleed following accidents and incidents while they await the first responders. The more kits we install in cabs, the more word spreads that this vital equipment […]

   14/11/2023