St John Ambulance Australia is a self-funding charitable organisation active in all States and Territories, dedicated to helping people in sickness, distress, suffering or danger.

We have been active in Australia for over a hundred years, and internationally are part of a wider organisation with a long and honourable history.

St John is Australia's largest first aid trainer, teaching practical life-saving skills to around a quarter of a million people each year.

Who are we?

• We are ordinary people doing extraordinary things in our local communities - people with a commitment to practical and compassionate caring. We have:
• Around 10,000 first aid volunteers, in their familiar black and white uniforms, provide first aid coverage at public events and wherever crowds gather. First aid volunteers include some 3,000 Cadets (11-18 years) and over 600 Juniors (8-10 years)
• Around 2,400 non-uniformed community care volunteers, providing friendship, reassurance, survival skills and literacy support programs to those in need
• Numerous other volunteers who support crucial fundraising and awareness programs
• More than 3,000 paid and volunteer ambulance officers in Western Australia and the Northern Territory, providing critical response and non-emergency patient transport
• Around 2,000 accredited, highly qualified and trained first aid instructors; and around 350 paid staff members.
  We aim always to fund our activities as far as possible from our own efforts, primarily through the marketing of first aid training and kits, with additional funding provided by private donations, bequests, trusts and corporate sponsorship.

We provide:

• More than three quarters of a million hours of voluntary service each year
• A capable and professional first aid service at community and public events, and assistance during national disaster relief activities
• Treatment for nearly 80,000 casualties across Australia in 2004
• Rigorous in-house volunteer training through annual skills maintenance programs to help volunteers stay at the cutting edge of first aid practice
• Quality first aid training from basic resuscitation skills to advanced life support and remote area survival
• Specialised training for people in high-risk industries such as mining and shipping, in remote areas, and with OH&S responsibilities
• First aid advice to business, industry and the community
• Authoritative texts on first aid
• Community care services for the aged, the infirm, the immobile and lonely
• Highly professional and cost-effective ambulance services in Western Australia and the Northern Territory and
• Hope to those in the Middle East blighted with eye disease, through our support for the St John Jerusalem Eye Hospital.