St John Scotland

Saving and enhancing life

St John Scotland is a Scottish charity, formed in 1947, dedicated to saving and enhancing life. 

Headquartered in Edinburgh, we run many projects nationally, delivered by twelve Area teams across the country. 

Our national projects include our ongoing support of Scottish Mountain Rescue teams and a Mountain Safety Instructor, our Patient Transport schemes, public access defibrillator programmes and our group of First Responders. 

Internationally, we are proud to support the sight saving work of the St John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem, as well as helping people across the world who need it most through our support of St John Malawi Programmes. 

St John Scotland is also a proud partner of the Save a Life for Scotland initiative, which aims to train 500,000 people in Scotland skills in by-stander CPR by 2020. You can find out more about Save a Life for Scotland by visiting savealife.scot

We work together with local communities across Scotland to increase access to life-saving defibrillators. Our team of volunteers in Edinburgh run the St John and the City defibrillator project, installing life saving machines across the city and surrounding areas - including on each of Edinburgh's trams. You can find out more about the project here.

The St John Family

Like St John Ambulance, St John Scotland is part of the wider St John family, but we don’t currently provide first aid or ambulance services. For more information about what St John does internationally, visit: stjohninternational.org