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A free CPR workshop in Leeds has sold out, prompting trainers to add another session.
First aid trainer Kerry Smith, 46, from Bingley, Yorkshire, held the workshop for people on how to save someone whose heart has stopped.
Ms Smith has added a second session so that more people within the local area have the skills to help save a life.
The workshop will be held at White Rose Training Yorkshire in Farsley, on Saturday, November 21, 2026, and will focus on CPR and defibrillator skills.
Ms Smith said: "I honestly didn't expect the places to go as quickly as they did, and it tells me something really important.
"People want to know what to do.
"They just need someone to show them in a way that doesn't feel scary.
"So many of us have that voice in our head saying 'I wouldn't know what to do' or 'What if I get it wrong?' My job is to quieten that voice, so that if the worst happens, you step forward instead of freezing."
The workshop was created to mark Restart a Heart Day, the national awareness day led by Resuscitation Council UK and supported by the British Heart Foundation.
White Rose Training Yorkshire has previously trained staff from organisations such as McDonald's, Stockeld Park, and Lakeland Holiday Village Club.
The workshop is open to all and requires no previous first aid experience.
Attendees will learn how to recognise a cardiac arrest, call for help, deliver CPR, and use a defibrillator (AED).
Ms Smith said the need for CPR training is urgent, adding: "Fewer than one in ten people currently survive an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the UK, and every minute without CPR and defibrillation reduces the chance of survival by around 10 per cent.
"Yet when CPR is started immediately, and a defibrillator is used within three to five minutes of a cardiac arrest, survival rates can be as high as 70 per cent.
"Crucially, eight in ten out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen at home, meaning the person someone is most likely to need to save is a person they love.
"That statistic stops people in their tracks.
"It's not about being a hero at a big emergency in the street.
"It's more likely to be your partner, your mum or your dad on the living room floor."
Places are limited and can be booked at https://whiterose-training.co.uk/restart-a-heart/