This month we welcomed lottery winner Sharon Rose from Mill Hill to our helipad, in recognition of her support.
Sharon scooped the top prize of £1,000 in our weekly lottery, which raises vital funds each year for us. She is one of the 40,000 hopefuls across London who donate to be in with a chance of winning a cash prize.
We are delighted to announce our partnership with City Sports Management for this year’s London Beach Rugby event. Now in its fourth year, the annual event is an exciting 5-a-side touch rugby tournament taking place on Finsbury Square on 29th and 30th July.
We have launched a new educational app, ‘HELIMED’ which allows users to take on the role of a pilot, doctor or paramedic to undertake life-saving missions in a race against the clock. Designed for school children aged 11-14, but available to download free to all internationally, HELIMED aims to inspire a new generation of enthusiastic, technologically skilled young people in pursuing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) subjects.
Senior Communications professional and former broadcast journalist, Will Walden, has been appointed as a charity Trustee.
You are invited to enter a fourball into the 2016 London’s Air Ambulance Charity Golf Challenge at the prestigious Foxhills Club & Resort in Surrey.
Package includes:
On Course Hole in One Prize: Car (£25,000)
Happy birthday to our renowned Pre-Hospital Care Course, which has reached double figures this year. Taking place this week, the course is a requirement for all new London’s Air Ambulance doctors and paramedics to undertake and is an intense, seven-day journey through the various aspects of pre-hospital care.
We have launched a photography competition calling on the public to submit photos of our helicopters and rapid response car fleet to fill our 2017 Charity Calendar. Money raised from the sale of the calendar will help us to deliver our advanced trauma team to critically injured people in London, and continue saving lives in the capital.
Earlier this week we welcomed charity lottery winner Rebecca Teather from Biggin Hill to our helipad.
Rebecca scooped the top prize of £1,000 in our weekly lottery, which raises vital funds each year for the charity. She is one of the 45,000 hopefuls across London who donate to us to be in with a chance of winning a cash prize.
Marathon runner Dave Cooke will this month be taking on the Virgin London Marathon for us wearing chainmail, in a world record breaking attempt.
Having run six marathons previously, Dave has decided to up the 26.2 mile challenge on 24th April by wearing upper body chainmail, gloves and a hood — weighing almost 20kg in total. Should he achieve this in less than 5:49 hours he will also become a Guinness World Record holder, beating the current record set in 2014.
Four year old Ethan from Hornchurch is one of the lucky winners to name one of our helicopters. The winning name is ‘Rowan’ after his two year old sister.
On a visit to our helipad at The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel last week, Ethan and his sister got to see the chosen name. The name has been placed on one of our helicopters, the G-EHMS registered MD902 Explorer.
Ethan’s chosen name, and winning reason, is as follows:
Rowan (G-EHMS)
