Get involved with St John Ambulance

Every day, people like you help us with our life-saving work

Our charity is powered by people. The money you raise goes towards our training, equipment, and ambulances. The time you give us ensures we always have volunteers ready and able to respond when needed - saving more lives.

When you get involved with St John Ambulance, you also join a passionate community of helpers who are choosing to go out and make a difference. We have networks in over 150 locations across England and in each one you can find neighbours working together to provide care and save lives.

This takes a huge range of different skills so whether you’re keen to be involved in organising fundraisers, delivering first aid, working with young people, or something else entirely, we have a place for you.

It’s only with your help that we can continue to help keep communities safe and carry on our vital work.

What difference does it make?

In 2025, our volunteers were able to provide more than 41,000 episodes of first aid care across England. That translates to real people whose pain was treated, worries were eased and lives were saved. And this doesn’t even include the impact of our training services, youth work, and public campaigns.

So many things can feel out of our control, but when you choose to support us, you take a practical step towards getting people all over England the care they need in times of crisis.

Read stories from the lives of our patients and volunteers to find just some examples of the impact our people make every day.