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This year brought on unprecedented financial pressure for families experiencing disadvantage or caring for a child with chronic illness or disability. There are many ways, big and small, you can help families in need this Christmas.

St John WA trains about 200,000 Western Australians including children in first aid as part of its commitment to building strong and resilient communities.

St John WA's First Aid Focus program delivers lifesaving first aid skills to tens of thousands of students in remote and disadvantaged areas across the state each year.

A Fremantle business is selling locally designed boardshorts to help expand St John WA's defibrillator network along regional coastlines after a man died of cardiac arrest on a Denmark beach.

Not-for-profits St John WA and Anglicare WA have continued a five-year partnership to support families and children in need over the holiday season.

A partnership between the corporate and charity sector is providing essential services to regional communities in WA.

The charity would struggle to improve its lifesaving medical services to remote areas across WA's vast state on its own.

Not For Profits like St John WA were established for all Western Australians – not just those in the Perth metropolitan region.

Western Australia is home to an unseen army of 33,000 people, trained and ready to swing into action to potentially save a life – often before an ambulance is even dispatched.

Leading organisations the world over are very aware of the power of a good Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) Program.

Western Australian businesses and community groups are being called upon to help save lives by having on-site defibrillators registered for public access in a cardiac emergency.

Events large and small and St John WA go together like footy and meat pies or country fairs and hot sangers.

The staff and guests at Aloft Hotel in Perth are safer than most – and that's not just a throwaway line created by a public relations department to promote a sense of wellbeing.

Gaming technology has been used by St John to create an interactive and immersive, online training course that puts vital first aid skills in the hands of all Western Australians.

COVID-19 has prompted the reimagining of almost every aspect of our lives from how we shop, work, play, relate and communicate, to how we learn.