Thanks to generous donations, the Cycle Response Unit is now the home to a workplace aquarium. The team’s paramedics, who cycle thousands of miles across the capital each year, requested the aquarium to help improve staff wellbeing.

Cycle responders are experienced frontline paramedics, fully trained to work on their own and operate in busy areas that are difficult to travel through in a car or ambulance.

Our cycle response unit of 40 paramedics on bikes can get through narrow streets, pedestrian areas and shopping centres very easily.

They are able to reach patients quickly and start to give life-saving treatment while an ambulance is on the way.

Our cycle responders have equipment designed to enable them to respond to emergency calls: a custom-built bicycle, medical kit and specialist clothing.

They respond to emergency calls in particularly congested areas of the capital such as the West End, Heathrow Airport, Kingston town centre, the City of London and St Pancras.

Now, when they are back at the station, they have a space that provides tranquility and restoration. Workplace aquariums offer many benefits, including reduced levels of stress, lowered blood pressure and heart rate, decreased pain and anxiety, and improved focus and creativity…to name a few!

All staff and volunteers (including candidates in training, and those attending courses) are welcome to come and relax by the fish tank.