We’d like to encourage everyone living and working in the village to familiarise themselves with the sites of the life-saving defibrillator machines and learn how to use them.

An estimated 60,000 people each year in the UK have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and, sadly, less than 10% of those people will survive. Yet if a bystander is able to start CPR, they could double a person’s chances of survival.

Lindfield has ten defib machines that we know about, which includes the most recent installation at Blackthorns school - located inside the school reception. Where units are INSIDE, they are only accessible during the opening hours of that premises.

Some of the units shown here are available 24/7 (marked OUTSIDE) as they are installed outside of any locked or restricted area. The defib on the wall at Potential Personal Training on Lindfield Business Park, while it is inside, as the gym is open long hours, is available from early until at least 9pm every day.

Scaynes Hill now boasts an impressive three defibrillators: at the Millennium Centre, the service station/shop and at the primary school - although, thanks to reader Maria Lozinski - who let us know that the St Augustine School unit is actually behind the school gates. So this may mean that access is not possible outside of normal school hours.

All of the machines are portable and contain full instructions. Plus, if you are on the phone to 999, the operator will be able to talk you through using these public devices in real time.

A good place for more information is the British Heart Foundation’s website: www.defibfinder.uk - which gives a live listing to all registered defibs, plus FAQs about using them.

At Lindfield Life, we are committed to reprinting this map and information on a regular basis in order to familiarise the whole village regarding access to this life-saving equipment - which can be used by anyone. If anyone knows of any other publicly-available defibs in the area, do please email us (editor@lindfieldlife.co.uk) and we’ll update the map for next time.