Sandpiper Trust

Sandpiper Trust was founded in 2001 after the tragic death of a 14-year-old child called Sandy Dickson in an accident in 2000.{{Cite web|url=https://sandpiperaustralia.org/|title=Sandpiper Australia – Supporting Pre-Hospital Care in Rural Australia}} This accident highlighted to the founders (his family) that critical illness does not respect geography, and that an ambulance can not always be rapidly accessible when accidents occur in remote and rural areas.{{cite web | last=Leeuwenburg | first=Tim | title=Sandpiper Australia - 2020 ahead | website=KI Doc | date=28 Dec 2019 | url=https://kidocs.org/2019/12/sandpiper-australia-2020-ahead/ | access-date=21 Mar 2021}}

This led the trust to provide life-saving emergency medical equipment (in the Sandpiper Bag) to rural clinicians.{{Citation |title=Heartland FM Speaks to Lorna Duff from Sandpiper |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GERekw4tOw |language=en |access-date=2022-07-18}} With the hope of enabling the provision of prehospital emergency care in situations where ambulance response times are long, or where the skills of a senior clinician (doctor, nurse or paramedic) may be a valuable augmentation to the statutory ambulance service, the Scottish Ambulance Service.

Sandpiper Trust also provides BASICS Scotland volunteer responders with the technology to connect them to the Scottish Ambulance Service despatch system, monitor their location for safety purposes, and allow communication with the ambulance control room and other emergency services. Currently a number of responders are provided with Airwave digital radios, while others have vehicle locator systems.

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The patron of Sandpiper Trust since its inception has been Gavin Hastings.{{cite web | last=Drysdale | first=Neil | title=The Big Interview: 'Slam was grand but it's still people who count' | website=Press and Journal | date=9 Mar 2020 | url=https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sport/rugby/2033298/the-big-interview-slam-was-grand-but-its-still-people-who-count/ | access-date=4 Apr 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.sandpipertrust.org/|title=Sandpiper Trust – Saving lives in rural Scotland}} Hastings has hosted many events for The Sandpiper trust and continues to generously devote his time and energy to supporting the Trust.

The trust has four trustees; Penny Dickson, Aly Dickson, Claire Maitland and Caroline Ross-Stewart. It also has two medical advisors, to ensure they are able to facilitate rural immediate medical care to the best of their abilities, these are: Dr Ewen McLeod and Dr Ben Price.{{Cn|date=September 2022}}

===Charitable objectives===

Sandpiper Trust has four core objectives. Firstly to work towards the relief of the suffering (from illness or injury) of people in Scotland through the provision of immediate medical care, secondary to facilitate the advancement of the study of immediate medical care through the provision of education and training across Scotland. Thirdly the provision of medical equipment to facilitate the first objective and finally, relieving human suffering through the promotion of medical research.{{Cite web|url=https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=31165|title=OSCR | Charity Details|website=www.oscr.org.uk}}

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As part of their fund-raising activities, Sandpiper Trust produced their own cookbook, compiled by Claire Maitland and published by Finks Publishing in 2009.{{cite book |isbn=978-0956374417|title=The Sandpiper Cookbook: Not Just Another Charity Cookbook |year=2009 }} It includes recipes from a wide range of authors/chefs including Gordon Ramsay, it also contains a number of cocktails (including Tiger Woods exclusive wedding cocktail) and unusually for a cookbook, essential emergency medical tips.

The trust also produced this text in 2013, described as "A collection of thought provoking prose and poetry, to help provide comfort, strength and support during difficult times", and listed as a motivational self-help guide on Amazon. It is ranked at number 29 in the amazon best-sellers list for poetry anthologies.{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/books/275128/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_books|title=Amazon.co.uk Best Sellers: The most popular items in Poetry Anthologies|website=www.amazon.co.uk}}

In addition to sales of these two books, the trust also receives donations from organisations and individuals,{{cite web | last=Andonova | first=Denny | title=North-east charity raises nearly £40,000 for life-saving service | website=Press and Journal | date=6 Jan 2021 | url=https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeenshire/2777941/north-east-charity-raises-nearly-40000-for-life-saving-service/ | access-date=4 Apr 2021}} and in 2021 a Highlands family raised a significant amount for the charity through open water swimming.{{cite web | last=Macaulay | first=Susy | title=Golspie family brave icy Sutherland waters in Sandpiper Trust fundraiser | website=Press and Journal | date=11 Feb 2021 | url=https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands/2890507/golspie-family-brave-icy-sutherland-waters-in-sandpiper-trust-fundraiser/ | access-date=4 Apr 2021}}

The charity also regularly runs charity auctions to raise money, and has been donated auction items such as handwritten lyrics from Annie Lennox,{{cite web | last=Shepherd | first=Jordan | title=Annie Lennox donates handwritten lyrics of smash-hit to Aberdeenshire charity | website=Press and Journal | date=3 Oct 2018 | url=https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen/1577565/annie-lennox-donates-handwritten-lyrics-of-smash-hit-to-aberdeenshire-charity/ | access-date=4 Apr 2021}} luxury Scottish fishing trips,{{cite web | last=Ramage | first=Tom | title=Online auction aims to save rural lives in Highlands | website=Strathspey Herald | date=3 Dec 2020 | url=https://www.strathspey-herald.co.uk/news/online-auction-aims-to-save-rural-lives-in-highlands-220256/ | access-date=4 Apr 2021}} and sculptures, among other things.{{cite web | last=Newsroom | first=The | title=Fishing & Shooting: The Sandpiper Challenge | website=The Scotsman | date=20 Jun 2010 | url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/fishing-shooting-sandpiper-challenge-1715453 | access-date=4 Apr 2021}}{{cite web | title=[PDF] The Newsletter of The Sandpiper Trust - A Scottish Charity - Free Download PDF | website=SILO of research documents | date=6 Sep 2016 | url=https://silo.tips/download/the-newsletter-of-the-sandpiper-trust-a-scottish-charity | access-date=4 Apr 2021}}

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Sandpiper Trust has developed the internationally respected{{who|date=April 2022|reason=Who are these international respecters and where are they?}} Sandpiper Bag, which is used across Scotland by BASICS Scotland responders,{{cite web | title=Sandpiper Bag Holders – BASICS Scotland | website=BASICS Scotland | url=https://basics-scotland.org.uk/sandpiper-bag-holders/ | access-date=21 Mar 2021}} in Australia through the newly formed charity Sandpiper Australia{{cite web | title=The Sandpiper Bag – Sandpiper Australia | website=Sandpiper Australia – Supporting Pre-Hospital Care in Rural Australia | date=8 Dec 2020 | url=https://sandpiperaustralia.org/index.php/the-sandpiper-bag/ | access-date=21 Mar 2021}} and is the official immediate care bag for the Faculty of Prehospital Care examinations at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.{{cite web | title=Sandpiper Bags | website=The Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care | date=2 Feb 2015 | url=https://fphc.rcsed.ac.uk/examinations/exam-video-and-podcast-resources/sandpiper-bags | access-date=21 Mar 2021}}

Each bag contains over 50 items of life-saving medical equipment,{{Cite journal |last=Mallinson |first=Tom |last2=Worrall |first2=Mark |last3=Price |first3=Richard |last4=Duff |first4=Lorna |date=2022 |title=Prehospital endotracheal intubation in cardiac arrest by BASICS Scotland clinicians |url=https://rgdoi.net/10.13140/RG.2.2.24988.56969 |language=en |doi=10.13140/RG.2.2.24988.56969}} these are organised into removable pouches, allowing them to be passed out to different team members to facilitate parallel working in acute situations.{{Cite web |title=Media – Sandpiper Australia |url=https://sandpiperaustralia.org/index.php/resources/media-articles/ |access-date=2022-08-12 |language=en}} To date over a thousand Sandpiper Bags have been distributed across Scotland and beyond.{{Cite web |title=Sandpiper Bag Holders – BASICS Scotland |url=https://basics-scotland.org.uk/sandpiper-bag-holders/ |access-date=2022-07-18 |language=en-GB}} The 1000th bag was presented by Elizabeth II in 2016.{{Cite web |title=FPHC Chairman Meets the Queen as Sandpiper Trust Reach Milestone - The Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care |url=https://fphc.rcsed.ac.uk/about/about-us/news/2016/august/fphc-chairman-meets-the-queen-as-sandpiper-trust-reach-milestone |access-date=2022-08-12 |website=fphc.rcsed.ac.uk}}

In 2021 The Sandpiper Trust funded and in conjunction with BASICS Scotland, developed the Emergency Medicines pouch for active BASICS Scotland volunteer responders.{{Cite tweet |user=nickpheath |number=1482850543785680900 |url=https://twitter.com/nickpheath/status/1482850543785680900 |access-date=2023-06-10 |url-status=live |archive-date=Jul 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220718100518/https://twitter.com/nickpheath/status/1482850543785680900 |language=en |title=Familiarising myself with my @Sandpiper_Trust kit…}} The drug pouch contains an array of medicines required for the initial management and stabilisation of critically unwell patients across rural Scotland.

The Sandpiper Wildcat Project was a research programme{{cite web |date=27 Feb 2014 |title=Sandpiper WILDCAT project |url=https://www.rrg.scot/projects/sandpiper-wildcat-project/ |access-date=21 Mar 2021 |website=Resuscitation Research Group}} focussing on saving lives after out of hospital cardiac arrest, through optimising the chain of survival in rural Grampian, Scotland.{{cite web |date=13 Apr 2015 |title=Plan to boost cardiac survival rates in Grampian |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-32286145 |access-date=4 Apr 2021 |website=BBC News}}{{cite web |date=26 Feb 2015 |title='Wildcat' network to boost cardiac arrest survival rates |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-31639785 |access-date=4 Apr 2021 |website=BBC News}}{{cite web |date=29 Oct 2020 |title=Wildcats are go! |url=https://www.savealife.scot/224-2/ |access-date=21 Mar 2021 |website=Save a life Scotland}} The driving hypothesis being that providing enhanced training and equipment a team of volunteer community first responders, who are then targeted to areas where Scottish Ambulance Service response times can be prolonged would lead to earlier, effective resuscitation, hopefully resulting in improved patient outcomes.{{cite journal |last1=Fickling |first1=Keri |last2=Clegg |first2=Gareth |last3=Jensen |first3=Keith |last4=Donaldson |first4=Lorna |last5=Laird |first5=Colville |last6=Bywater |first6=Dave |year=2019 |title=PP22 Sandpiper wildcat project – saving lives after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in rural grampian |journal=Emergency Medicine Journal |publisher=BMJ |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=e9.1–e9 |doi=10.1136/emermed-2019-999.22 |issn=1472-0205 |s2cid=81246069}} The project won the Blue Light Hero award at the Pride of Aberdeen awards in 2017.{{cite web |title=Sandpiper Wildcat team win Pride of Aberdeen Award! – BASICS Scotland |url=https://basics-scotland.org.uk/blog/sandpiper-wildcat-team-win-pride-of-aberdeen-award/ |access-date=21 Mar 2021 |website=BASICS Scotland}}{{cite web |date=20 Nov 2017 |title=Life-saving Sandpiper Wildcat team scoops top accolade at Pride of Aberdeen awards |url=https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/life-saving-scheme-scoops-top-accolade/ |access-date=21 Mar 2021 |website=Evening Express}}

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the trust distributed over 700 pulse oximeters to remote and rural GP practices throughout Scotland, to aid with the diagnosis of, and subsequent monitoring of patients affected by COVID-19. These have been used in the Orkney and Shetland Islands, Coll, Arran, Tomintoul, Killin, Callander, Strachur, Mull, Galloway, Kenmay, Skye and other practices throughout Grampian.{{cite web | title=Sandpiper Trust – Saving lives in rural Scotland | website=Sandpiper Trust – Saving lives in rural Scotland | url=https://www.sandpipertrust.org | access-date=21 Mar 2021}}

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• {{Official website}}
• [https://twitter.com/sandpiper_trust?lang=en Twitter account]
• {{Scottish charity|SC031165}}

Category:Charities based in Scotland

Category:Organizations established in 2001