Our specially designed Baby & Child First Aid course provides the essentials to help cope with an injury or emergency. Run in partnership with Mini First Aid, the course helps parents and raises much needed funds.

Parents learning first aid

NCT Baby & Child First Aid courses are delivered by quality assured Mini First Aid trainers. Taking Baby & Child First Aid training can help build your confidence as a parent, whether your child is under one year old or an older child.

“The baby first aid class was amazing! So informative, and I feel so much more confident now should I find myself in a situation with my baby where first aid is required. I would like to add that the class was made even better as babies were welcome - hugely appreciated.”

New Parent, Natalie (Shropshire)

What to expect

Our partners, Mini First Aid deliver a 2 hour online or in person session for small groups of new and expectant parents.

Topics covered include:

  • CPR
  • Choking
  • Bumps
  • Burns
  • Breaks
  • Bleeding
  • Febrile seizures
  • Meningitis Awareness

Other First Aid courses

Some of our local NCT communities work with other local providers. You can check who is delivering the first aid course when you do your local search.

Find your local first aid course

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Volunteer at your next NCT event

Join your local NCT’s volunteer team to help run these invaluable courses for parents. It only takes 30 minutes to set up and promote the course. You can help parents make valuable connections by taking 15 minutes to welcome them to the course and tell them about NCT local parent activities. It helps to raise funds that could support even more similar activities for parents.

You will be joining a friendly bunch of local volunteers who arrange loads of great activities for local parents. Find out more about volunteering.

How much time can you spare a month ?

Mother on phone with baby
1 min

Follow @NCTCharity on Twitter or your Local NCT Community on Facebook. If you see a story, event or campaign, share with your friends and networks.

Get started today
Mother on laptop with baby
10 min

Take a look at the range of information we have for parents online. Tell others about the information and support available to help us spread the word. Or get involved with your Local NCT Community online to find out if you can help with their social media promotion.

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Parents with baby
1-2 hrs

Get involved with a local NCT community and help plan, set up and run a number of activities that help parents. Coordinating a Baby First Aid course is easy to set-up and run and helps local parents feel more confident. It also raises essential funds to help us do more.

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Nearly New Sale volunteers
0.5 day

Join the volunteer team for our famous Nearly New Sales. Help is always needed with setting-up, running and packing away these amazing events which help with parenting costs and raise funds to support our work locally and nationally.

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Parents at coffee shop
1 day

Join the volunteer team to help run family friendly activities and fundraisers in your local community. This could be from hosting a coffee morning twice a month, helping with Bumps & Babies social groups, to hosting a fundraiser like a cake sale or pamper evening.

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Walking group
2+ days

Join the local team to coordinate the running of regular activities and key fundraising activities. The local community team’s do amazing activities for parents as coordinator or treasurer you can ensure it continues for many parents and babies to come.

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Parents and children
3+ days

Join as a Community Builder and build a team of community volunteers. Your skills, enthusiasm and support will help our local volunteers continue to deliver amazing events and groups for parents across the whole of the UK.

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