Communities across the country benefit from the charitable services our volunteers provide. Our Operations volunteers, in their familiar black and white uniforms, provide first aid coverage at public events and wherever crowds gather. Non-uniformed Community Care volunteers support the vulnerable within our community in need of friendship, compassionate care or a little help. In Western Australia and the Northern Territory we run the public ambulance service. Paid and volunteer ambulance officers provide critical response and non-emergency patient transport.
Volunteers also support crucial fundraising and awareness programs.
We service the needs of business, industry, home and family with our quality range of first aid kits and products. And St John is Australia's largest first aid trainer, teaching practical life-saving skills to around a quarter of a million people each year. We aim always to fund our activities as far as possible from our own efforts, primarily through the marketing of first aid training and kits, with additional funding provided by private donations, bequests, trusts and corporate sponsorship. St John is a Royal Order of Chivalry, with the Queen as Sovereign Head. The Governor General is the Prior in Australia.