The life and pension firm Phoenix Group has extended its corporate charity partnership with London’s Air Ambulance and Midlands Air Ambulance Charity for a further two years.
The partnership, which started in March 2014, has raised over £232,000 for both charities to date. This has been raised primarily through the fundraising efforts of the 750 employees based at the Group, together with company matching.
A St Helier-based paramedic, who helped introduce our life saving dispatch app, has been recognised for his work.
London Ambulance Service Clinical Team Leader, Jason Morris, worked with colleagues to introduce the app, which cuts the time it takes for the advanced trauma team to be dispatched via air or road by up to two minutes. In some cases doctors and paramedics are dispatched in rapid response cars to trauma incidents in less than 10 seconds.
UPDATE: Our 'Your London, Your Helicopter' campaign in 2015 successfully raised the funds required to purchase our charity's second helicopter, G-LNDN. Click here to read more about the success of the second helicopter campaign, and the arrival of the helicopter in January 2016.
London born actor Larry Lamb and entrepreneur Richard Branson have joined our ‘Your London, Your Helicopter’ campaign — calling for a second medical emergency helicopter for the capital.
UPDATE: Our 'Your London, Your Helicopter' campaign in 2015 successfully raised the funds required to purchase our charity's second helicopter, G-LNDN. Click here to read more about the success of the second helicopter campaign, and the arrival of the helicopter in January 2016.
Three London’s Air Ambulance supporters visited our helipad last week in celebration of winning the charity’s lottery.
Bromley resident Edward Powell, Ruislip resident Winifred Beresford and Bexleyheath resident Rita Bernard won the top weekly prize of £1,000 earlier this year. They got to stand at the top of The Royal London Hospital where the city’s emergency medical helicopter service is based.
Our single helicopter was able to deliver our advanced trauma team to treat a patient in Trafalgar Square on Saturday 18 April due to our recent extension to our daylight flying hours.
For the first time in our history we will fly longer hours during the summer months. From 29 March 2015, the start of BST, until 2 September, we are now able to deliver our advanced trauma team to critically injured people in London via helicopter every day until sunset.
Marius Rehn started his career as a winch man in the Royal Norwegian Air Force “hanging from aircraft like a tea bag on a wire and picking up people we couldn’t access otherwise.” Now a Senior Researcher currently on secondment at London’s Air Ambulance, Marius aims to facilitate collaborative research projects between us and the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation. We talked to Marius about the differences between working in London and Norway, from the weather to number of people per helicopter.
On Sunday 8th March, 70 teams took to the streets of London to take part in the Tower Powerhouses: 5km Family Challenge in order to raise money for our charity and Historic Royal Palaces. This event was the first of its kind for London's Air Ambulance and was a huge success. Teams started off at the Tower of London, where they collected their first clue and set off on their 5km walk around the City of London, searching for clues and answers to facts about the history of London.
UPDATE: Our 'Your London, Your Helicopter' campaign in 2015 successfully raised the funds required to purchase our charity's second helicopter, G-LNDN. Thank you to everyone who contributed to and supported the campaign.
