🇬🇧 Banbury Rotary Club at Remembrance Sunday 2025 🇬🇧

Today, members of Banbury Rotary Club were honoured to take an active part in Banbury’s Remembrance Day commemorations — a moving and unifying occasion for our town as we remembered those who gave so much for our freedom.

The Events 

What an unforgettable week it has been! Our Children's Concert Series has been a resounding success, with 22 local schools and 450 children shining bright on stage, each school performing two songs before combining into a massed choir of 100 - 150 young singers for each evening’s finale.

The 4 day series of concerts drew to a close with storming renditions by Frank Wise School students singing ‘Elephants have wrinkles’ and ‘Let’s go fly a kite’, again followed the massed  finale songs in which  all the young singers performed with such gusto and enthusiasm that you’d have needed a heart of stone not to be moved by the joyousness of the whole occasion.

Thanks to Alex for some high quality training on the CPR and the use of defibillators.

He commenced by explaining the difference between a heart attack (plumbing) and cardiac arrest (electrics!)

In the case of cardiac arrest the electrical signals to the heart are often in a state of fibrillation (irregular fluttering).

The patient will be unconscious and the first 3-5 minutes are pivotal. CPR keeps oxygen circulating until a defibrillator can be used to stop thje fibrillation and allow the heart to restart with a proper rhythm. 

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