First Aid Courses and Training in Guildford

Your first aiders' certificates expired last month, the risk assessment says you need cover, and getting a Guildford team off the floor for a day feels impossible. It's a problem we hear weekly, from offices near the Friary to units on Slyfield, and it's fixable without anyone leaving the building.

Aim2Aid Ltd is company number 16319053, our trainers are in-house and never outsourced, and Rebecca Sullivan leads a team with over 50 years of combined experience across our first aid and emergency first aid at work in Guildford, which employers rely on.

Call Rebecca on 07771 680794 for a free quote and a date that suits your shift pattern.

Course Options

Looking for a first aid course in Guildford that will actually stand up to a compliance check? Every course we run is delivered at your own premises, with in-house trainers who between them hold over 50 years of combined experience. Rebecca Sullivan leads that team, and we don't outsource a single session to a freelance instructor, so you'll always be dealing with people who answer to us.

We're Aim2Aid Ltd, company number 16319053, based at 70 Fountain Gardens in Windsor. That's a published number you can check. We train across Guildford and across Surrey, plus surrounding areas, and we've built the course list around what employers, schools and nurseries here actually need.

Workplace Courses

Emergency First Aid at Work and First Aid at Work are the two that cover most workplaces, from a small office off North Street to a warehouse unit on the Slyfield estate. Both are accredited by FAIB and carry a 3-year certificate recognised by HSE, Ofsted and the DfE.

Paediatric and Child Care Courses

Nurseries, pre-schools, childminders and out-of-school clubs need paediatric content. We cover infant and child CPR, choking, febrile convulsions and the injuries that come with soft play and busy garden sessions.

Mental Health Courses

Our mental health training is accredited separately, by FAA. It sits alongside the physical first aid courses rather than replacing them, and it's popular with employers who've realised their first aiders were already fielding those conversations.

Emergency First Aid at Work

Emergency First Aid at Work is the one-day option, running to about six hours, for up to 12 delegates, with a 3-year certificate at the end. It's the right level for lower-risk workplaces: shops, offices, salons, cafes around the town centre. It's FAIB accredited.

Every paediatric first aid course we run includes Emergency First Aid at Work at no extra cost. That matters if your staff look after children but may also need to help an adult in an emergency. You get the child and infant skills and the workplace qualification without a second invoice.

There's also a blended option on this course. The theory is completed online in your own time, and the practical, the compressions, the recovery position, the bleed control, happens at your venue. The duration, the delegate cap of 12 and the 3-year certificate are all unchanged, so compliance is identical either way.

Defibrillators sit inside this course too, and we bring training units so everyone gets hands-on with the pads and the prompts. AED training in Guildford is part of the same range, and we cover the whole area. You can see the full range of our first aid course services if you want to compare levels before you commit.

Paediatric and Specialist First Aid

Paediatric first aid is written around real childcare incidents, not adapted adult content. We cover the unresponsive infant, the choking toddler, meningitis signs, burns and scalds from kitchens, and head injuries from climbing frames. Ofsted and the DfE recognise the certificate for three years.

Guildford has a lot of settings that need this: nurseries near Stoke Park, primary schools off Woodbridge Road, and childminders working from home across Onslow Village. We come to you, so the team trains together in the room they actually work in.

Childcare Settings

For nurseries and pre-schools we'll run the group through scenarios using your own kit and your own layout. That's more useful than a generic room, because staff learn where the bag lives and how they'd get help.

Schools and Clubs

Schools, sports clubs and holiday schemes usually want a mix of paediatric and workplace content. We'll tell you plainly which qualification each role needs, so nobody sits a course they didn't require. We run first aid training in Woking as well. We cover the whole area.

Course Content and Learning Outcomes

Every course, at every level, now includes life-threatening bleed control. Catastrophic bleeding kills fast, and we teach direct pressure, packing and tourniquet use as standard rather than as an add-on.

Across our courses, delegates learn to:

• Carry out a primary survey and assess a casualty safely
• Deliver effective CPR and use an AED on an adult, child or infant
• Manage a choking casualty of any age
• Control life-threatening bleeding and treat shock
• Place an unresponsive, breathing casualty in the recovery position
• Treat burns, scalds, breaks, sprains and minor injuries
• Apply hygiene techniques and complete accident and incident reporting

Assessment is continuous and practical. Nobody is sat down with an exam paper and left to sink. If a delegate is struggling with compressions or with the AED sequence, the trainer works with them until it's right, which is how it should be done.

Certification and Compliance in Guildford

Certificates last three years and are recognised by HSE, Ofsted and the DfE. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) sets out that employers must assess their own first aid needs based on risk, workforce size and site layout, and we'll talk that through with you before you book so the level matches the assessment.

First aid courses are accredited by FAIB. Mental health courses are accredited by FAA. We keep those separate because they are separate, and any provider blurring them isn't giving you a straight answer.

Diary the renewal date the day the certificates arrive. Requalification before expiry keeps your cover continuous, and we'll flag it with you rather than waiting for the phone to ring after the fact.

How to Book for Guildford Workplaces

Booking is a phone call to 07771 680794 or a message through the site. Tell us the number of delegates, the level you think you need and a couple of possible dates, and we'll confirm the course and give you a quote at no charge.

We train at your premises only. That means no travel time for your staff and no hire costs for a room somewhere else. If you're searching for first aid training near you in Guildford, we come to your door, whether that's a unit on Moorfield Road or an office near the Friary. We also run first aid training in Milton Keynes. We cover the whole area.

Reviews are on the site through our reviews widget, including Trustpilot, so you can read what other local employers have said in their own words rather than take ours.

Training Formats and Group Booking

Group bookings are the norm. Bring the whole shift through in one day and you've got consistent cover, consistent language and one renewal date to track.

Onsite Delivery

We need a room with space to work on the floor, enough chairs and a plug socket. A staff room, a meeting room or a cleared warehouse corner all work fine. We bring manikins, AED trainers, bandages and bleed control kit.

Blended Delivery

Where a course offers it, the online theory can be done before we arrive, which shortens the time your team is off the floor. The practical element still happens face to face at your site, and the certificate is identical.

Refreshers and Requalification

Annual skills refreshers keep confidence up between three-year requalifications. They're short, practical and worth doing, especially for teams with high turnover. Our courses here include first aid at work in Guildford, and we cover the whole area.

First Aid at Work

First Aid at Work is the fuller qualification, FAIB accredited, with a 3-year certificate recognised by HSE, Ofsted and the DfE. It suits higher-risk sites and larger teams: manufacturing on Slyfield, construction, transport, care settings.

It builds on the emergency syllabus with more depth on illness, injury management and casualty handling, so your first aiders can hold a situation for longer before help arrives. For your business, that's genuine resilience rather than a certificate in a folder.

Rebecca and the team will help you work out how many first aiders you need for your workplace and which level each one should hold. Call 07771 680794 and we'll get your staff booked in.