Potentially life-saving equipment is now available to people in Maryculter, Aberdeenshire.
A representative from the Scottish Ambulance Service has trained a group of volunteers, all regular users of the village hall, in how to use a defibrillator.
The qualified first responders will now be ready to use the machine wherever needed across their local area, which includes Deeside Caravan Park.
Quick reaction by a responder can be crucial when someone is having a cardiac arrest, as the defibrillator delivers an electric shock to the heart to get it beating again normally.
Captain Oliver Signorini, acting chairman of the British Heart Foundation’s Aberdeen branch, handed over the defibrillator to Maryculter Hall users committee chairman, Kees Witte, last week.
Largely funded by the North Kincardine rural community council, it will be based at the Old Mill Inn, Maryculter, with appropriate signs placed prominently in the hall and caravan park.