Mum of six, Kate Ball initially started Mini First Aid in 2014 from her kitchen table in Leeds, offering high quality baby & child first aid classes to parents and carers. Demand grew and Kate saw the potential for growth, so she started franchising the business in 2015. In 2021, BBC Dragon’s Den star Sara Davies, also saw the huge potential in Mini First Aid and she came on board as an investor and adviser. Mini First Aid is now a multi-award-winning organisation and has almost 70 franchises nationwide.
Kelly is an Ex – British Army Combat Medical Technician, who is now an operational registered Paramedic, and an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, she is a qualified instructor and a train the instructor and is also fluent in British Sign Language. Kelly has been teaching first aid for over 25 years. Kelly & Matt have an 8 year old son Alex, and this is when their passion in first aid training developed even further to train as many children and adults in first aid as possible to empower people to save lives. This ranges from new parents and grandparents to children of a young age helping siblings, friends, parents and grandparents in an emergency situation.
Iona has been a registered nurse for over 40 years and has worked in various settings within the NHS and social care, including Accident & Emergency. She has a grown family who have children of their own. One of the grandchildren has additional needs so is aware of how important it is to know the individual needs of those you care for, have the knowledge of how, and when, to intervene and how to do it safely.
Lucy previously worked as a Paramedic within the Yorkshire region. Lucy has experience of working on the front line responding to 999 emergencies, within Integrated Urgent Care, the Emergency Operations Centre and the private sector. Lucy is a qualified instructor and enjoys sharing her knowledge and training a wide variety of learners from the youngest members within the school community, through to new parents and grandparents. Lucy is a mum to Theo who is 10.
Matt has over 10 years' experience with South Yorkshire Ambulance Service and is a current front-line serving Emergency Ambulance technician. Matthew is a qualified instructor and has several years of experience in teaching and training, both in the private and corporate sector.
Mini First Aid is expanding as our demand for classes continues to grow.
Mini First Aid are looking for dynamic confident individuals who would like to work with all ages and feel passionately about teaching first aid.
The business is family friendly allowing our franchisees to balance owning a business with family life.
Full training is provided at the beginning of your franchise and Mini First Aid continue to support their franchisees with professional development training throughout their franchise period.
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