Every year over 10,000 St John volunteers deliver first aid services at public events throughout the country and some two thousand more volunteers provide support and companionship for the isolated elderly in our community.

St John Ambulance operates services in all states and territories and is dedicated to caring for life in the community. In Victoria St John:

• Provides free first aid at public and sporting events
• Provides first aid in civil emergencies under Victoria's Emergency Management Arrangements
• Conducts workplace and public first aid training courses
• Sells first aid kits, components and manuals
• Visits lonely, elderly and infirm people in nursing homes under the Commonwealth Government's Friends For Older People scheme and the State Government’s Visiting Friends program.
• Provides ophthalmic surgeons and financial support to the St John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem
• Upholds the traditions, objects and ideals of the Order of St John.