A LIFE-SAVING gift has been given to a Woodley school by a charity founded by the mum of a five-year-old who died last year.

The Lilly-May Page Trust was set up by Claire Page in the wake of her daughter’s death and on Wednesday St Dominic Savio Catholic Primary School welcomed the group’s second defibrillator donation.

The school’s headteacher and business manager were the first to be trained up on the new Samaritan 500PAD and they could not believe how easy it was to use.

James Broadbridge, headteacher, said: “We are incredibly grateful. I think Claire is very brave and when she showed us the machine it was so easy it use. It’s very clever how it speaks to you and because it will be outside the building it is also a help for the wider community.”

Earlier in the month Claire visited Southlake Primary School to present a defibrillator that had been donated to the trust by manufacturer HeartSine.

But Wednesday’s presentation to staff and pupils at St Dominic Savio saw the first installation off the back of the charity’s own fundraising efforts and Claire was pleased to see the ball start rolling.

She said: “My aim is to have a defibrillator in all the schools in Woodley.

“This just shows that all of the hard work is paying off. We find it really irresponsible to place them without doing any training.”

Both Mr Broadbridge and Claire Willoughby went through four hours of instruction on how to use the defibrillator as well as going through CPR and discussing the fight or flight reactions to an emergency.