Oswestry St John Ambulance

22/08/2026

🔎🕵️ THE GREAT ODD OBJECT TRAIL IS COMING! 🕵️🔎

Think you’ve got a keen eye? 👀 Can you spot something that doesn’t belong? 🤔

From Monday 24th August to Sunday 30th August, join us for the St John Ambulance Odd Object Trail around Oswestry! 🚑💚

🗺️ HOW TO TAKE PART

1️⃣ Pick up your £2 answer sheet from one of our participating locations:
📚 Booka Bookshop – Church Street
🪑 Oak Furniture Shop – Bailey Street
🖼️ Oswestry Framing Co – Leg Street

2️⃣ Visit the shops listed on your answer sheet and keep your eyes peeled in their windows.

3️⃣ Find the ODD OBJECT that doesn’t belong! 👀🔍

4️⃣ Write down your answers and return your completed sheet to any of the locations above OR hand it to a St John Ambulance member in Cae Glas Park on Sunday 30th August.

💷 Answer sheets are just £2 each, and EVERY PENNY raised will be donated to St John Ambulance! 💚

🏆 Can you spot them all?
🔎 Eyes sharp… there are some odd ones out!
🚶 Grab your answer sheet, hit the streets and start hunting!

Bring the family, challenge your friends and see who has the sharpest spotting skills in Oswestry! 👀🏆

Ready, set… SPOT! 🔎🚑💚

20/08/2026

Good luck to everyone getting their GCSE results today, especially our fantastic cadets!

13/08/2026

Good luck to everyone collecting A Level results today, especially our Cadets and young adults!

29/07/2026

Katie and James are at the Shrewsbury Castle theatre this evening for Lord Chamberlain's Men with their performance of Othello

29/07/2026

27/07/2026

Being a volunteer with St John Ambulance is not only a great way of giving back to your local community.

There are many reasons why people volunteer for St John, here’s just a few:

•You have witnessed an emergency and you want to know what to do to help

•You want to kickstart a career in healthcare

•You want to help inspire the next generation of lifesavers

•You want to make new lifelong friends

•You want to use your technical and IT skills to support the work we do on events

•You are a Healthcare Professional and you want to use your skills in new ways

To start your volunteer journey register your interest using the link below 👇

https://www.sja.org.uk/volunteer/308781/

27/07/2026

Our team will be at Oswestry Library today from 1pm until 3pm doing FREE First Aid sessions. Why not come along and say hi and have a chat with us or maybe even have a go of our CPR dummies and Choking vests.

26/07/2026

Events season is well underway and we are as busy as we have ever been.

Yesterday we had a large team out attending the Rum & Reggae Festival in Shrewsbury. Very busy and loud day but everyone worked very well providing expert patient care
Also Rob & Ollie were out at Vron Gate Show providing First Aid Cover.
A big thank you to all our volunteers for everything they do.

15/07/2026

We have had a Busy weekend.

On Saturday: James & Dave were at the Life of Riley Charity Fun Day.
Then on Sunday: Rachel, Rob, James, Grace and Cadet Tyler were at The Movement Centre 5k. Also, James & Rob then went to Theatre Severn to support the International Comedy Festival.
As well as this, we have had members providing public training courses.

It's been very hot but a big well done to all our volunteers for all the hard work.