Accredited Workplace First Aid, Health and Safety, and Social Care Training. Delivered On-Site, Across Farnham and West Surrey.

I went to Weydon School. I grew up in Farnham. This is not a coverage map entry for me; it’s home.

Most training providers who list Farnham on their website do so because a postcode checker told them it’s within range. They don’t know which end of South Street the traffic stacks up on a Thursday. They haven’t delivered Emergency First Aid at Work to the team at Hazelbank Nursery on the Guildford Road. They probably don’t remember Elphicks.

I do.

Elphicks was Farnham’s department store. Multi-storey, escalators, the kind of place everyone in town knew. It’s closed now. But I remember it well, partly because my brother had a fall on those escalators when we were kids. Nobody on the shop floor had any first aid training. The right response in those first few minutes was guesswork, not knowledge.

That’s not a story designed to scare you into a booking. It’s a fact about how things were, and how much has changed. The Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981 have always required employers to make adequate first aid provision. The culture around actually following through has, thankfully, caught up considerably since then.

That experience stayed with me. It’s part of why I ended up in this industry, and it’s part of why delivering training in Farnham feels like something that genuinely matters.

About Prima Cura Training

Prima Cura Training is led by Stephanie Austin. Farnham-raised, now Manchester-based, with 25+ years of experience in health and social care and nearly two decades delivering accredited workplace training across Surrey, the North West, and beyond.

Accreditations: FAIB, WorkSafe, CPD Assessed, HTN, and Nuco. Ofqual-recognised teaching qualification. Former member of the Skills for Care Personal Health Budgets Steering Committee. 98.9% learner satisfaction across all courses.

All associate trainers are formally recruited through safer recruitment processes, hold Enhanced DBS clearance, and work within a documented internal quality assurance framework covering delivery observation and standardisation. If you want to know exactly who is delivering your training and how consistency is maintained across the team, that information is on our website, and we will talk you through it before you book. We think quality assurance and compliance matters, and we publish our credentials openly so you can do exactly that.

Training Built Around What Farnham Actually Looks Like

Independent Retail, Hospitality, and the Creative Economy

Farnham’s town centre has one of the strongest independent retail and hospitality concentrations in West Surrey. The Lion and Lamb Yard, the high street, and the businesses that have anchored the town for decades sit alongside newer independents. The University for the Creative Arts has shaped the local economy in ways that extend well beyond the campus itself; studios, small agencies, galleries, and design practices all carry the same first aid obligations under the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981 regardless of headcount.

Hazelbank Nursery on the Guildford Road is a good example of the kind of business we work with here. Family-run, rooted in the local area, staff on their feet all day in a working environment that carries real physical risk. We delivered Emergency First Aid at Work and Food Hygiene training for their team on-site. No travel time, no venue hire, scenarios that reflected the actual work their people do every day.

For hospitality venues managing evening trade, our Welfare & Vulnerability Engagement (WAVE) course is a practical addition for front-of-house and bar staff. If you’re a licensed premises in Farnham, it’s also worth reading our guide to first aid and safety training before you decide what your team actually needs.

We’ll always advise what’s genuinely appropriate for your size and setting. We don’t default to the most expensive option regardless of need.

Defence Sector Supply Chain and Professional Services

Farnham’s proximity to Aldershot and the wider North Downs corridor puts it within a significant cluster of businesses supporting the defence and security sectors. Professional services firms, engineering and technology consultancies, logistics and facilities management businesses, and SMEs whose client base has a distinctly military or government character all operate here.

Businesses in that environment understand compliance differently from the average SME. Training documentation, accreditation records, and audit-ready governance aren’t afterthoughts; they’re operational requirements. The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 places the duty of care firmly on the employer, and in sectors where client due diligence is routine, your training records need to stand up to scrutiny.

Prima Cura’s accreditation framework and documented internal quality assurance processes are built for organisations where that standard is expected as a baseline, not as something exceptional.

Care and Residential Services

The care sector across Farnham and the Waverley district serves an older and growing population. For CQC-regulated providers, training standards remain central to judgements about whether a service is safe and well-led, and that scrutiny has not eased.

Our Health & Social Care Training is available for on-site delivery in Farnham and the surrounding villages. Some of the courses we regularly deliver to our Farnham customers include Moving and Handling People, Safeguarding Adults, Medication Awareness and Administration, and Enteral Feeding (PEG).

Our Care Certificate blog series covers what each standard requires and what good delivery looks like in practice, which is useful reading before you commit to a provider.

Documentation is produced to an inspection-ready standard as a matter of course. Not as an add-on, you have to ask for.

For a fuller picture of what the Care Certificate involves and why it matters for regulated services, Skills for Care publishes the definitive guidance.

Schools, Nurseries, and Early Years

For Ofsted-registered providers, the paediatric first aid requirement is not discretionary. Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage sets out the requirement clearly: at least one person who holds a full paediatric first aid certificate must be on the premises and available at all times when children are present.

We offer Paediatric First Aid (12 hours) and Emergency Paediatric First Aid (6 hours), both available for on-site delivery at your setting. Before any booking is confirmed, we verify which qualification meets your specific registration requirements. The wrong course does not satisfy the Ofsted requirement, and we would rather spend five minutes checking than leave you with a compliance gap going into an inspection.

Rural and Trades Businesses

The villages and rural businesses spread across the Waverley district carry first aid and health and safety obligations that are frequently more demanding than those of a town-centre office. Agricultural, horticultural, and trades environments involve different physical risks, different equipment, and working conditions. The HSE’s guidance on first aid needs assessment explicitly recognises that it requires more than a minimum provision.

Our Manual Handling (Inanimate Load) and Risk Assessment Essentials courses are both available for on-site delivery and are built around practical scenarios, not theoretical office settings. For rural businesses with limited indoor space, we’ll discuss logistics before confirming a date rather than turning up and making assumptions.

Where appropriate, we can also incorporate elements from our Emergency First Aid with Life-threatening Bleeding, to ensure staff are prepared for real-world incidents.

Courses Available in Farnham

All training is delivered on-site at your premises. We bring all equipment and materials. No venue to book, no travel time lost, and no scenarios designed for a different industry than yours. Here are just a few of the courses we deliver:

First Aid

Health and Safety

Social Care

Not sure which course is right for your organisation? Give us a call, and we’ll work it out with you.

Our full course list can be found on our Course page.

On-Site Delivery Across Farnham and the Surrounding Villages

Farnham is well-connected by road and rail. The villages spread across the Waverley district are less so, and even for businesses in the town itself, releasing staff to travel to an external training venue is a disruption that adds up quickly, particularly for smaller care homes, rural employers, and independent businesses who can’t afford to lose a full team in one go.

On-site delivery removes that problem. We come to your premises, confirm the space and logistics before the date, and deliver training that uses your actual working environment as the context rather than a hired room with no relation to the work your people do.

We cover Farnham and the villages across Waverley, including Wrecclesham, Rowledge, Tilford, Churt, Frensham, and the surrounding area. If you’re not sure whether we cover your location, just ask.

Questions We Get Asked in Farnham

We’re a small care home near Farnham. Can you deliver on-site?

Yes, and on-site delivery is exactly what smaller care providers need. We come to your premises, work around your shift patterns where operationally possible, and deliver without leaving your service short-staffed in the process. Documentation is produced to the standard CQC inspectors expect to see, including individual learner records and course completion certificates. Care home delivery across Surrey is something we have significant experience in and understand well.

Do you cover the villages around Farnham?

Yes. On-site delivery means we come to you, whether you’re on the high street or down a lane in Tilford. If you’re unsure, drop us a message, and we’ll confirm coverage before you go any further.

We’re connected to the defence supply chain. Do you understand that kind of client?

Yes. Our courses are all relevant for professional services, engineering, facilities, and logistics businesses operating in that sector. Our accreditation framework and documentation standards are built for clients where compliance is an operational requirement, not a preference.

What happens to quality if an associate trainer delivers?

Nothing changes. Every associate trainer delivers Prima Cura lesson structures and assessment standards, is formally recruited through safer recruitment processes, holds Enhanced DBS clearance, and participates in ongoing internal quality assurance, delivery observation, and standardisation. The certification and assessment process is identical regardless of who delivers. We document this framework and publish our quality commitment openly because we think transparency on this point is non-negotiable.

Book Training in Farnham

If you’re in Farnham or anywhere across West Surrey and you need accredited workplace training that doesn’t require your team to lose half a day travelling, get in touch. We’ll advise on the right courses for your organisation, confirm your compliance obligations, and arrange on-site delivery at a time that works for how you actually operate.

Call: 0333 999 8783 Email: info@primacuratraining.co.uk

Written by Stephanie Austin — Owner and Lead Trainer, Prima Cura Training | 25+ years in health and social care | Nearly two decades delivering workplace training | Last reviewed: March 2026 | Next review: March 2027

This page provides general guidance on workplace training requirements in the UK. Employers should carry out their own risk assessments and refer to current guidance from the Health and Safety Executive, the Care Quality Commission, Ofsted, and other relevant regulators for their specific sector.