We are inviting entry-level City workers to take part in the London’s Air Ambulance ‘City Bounce’ event — a Zorb football tournament on 10 March at Play on Sports Arena in Whitechapel.
In partnership with Tokio Marine Kiln — the leading provider of specialist and corporate insurance —— ‘City Bounce’ is where teams will don inflatable Zorbs in an alternative take on the traditional five-a-side football tournament, competing to be crowned our ‘City Bounce’ Champions.
We are trialling a brain scanner in the pre-hospital environment, to detect on scene for potentially life-threatening head injuries. The Infrascanner works by detecting blood clots on the brain, allowing for earlier and more accurate diagnosis of potentially life-threatening injuries. Early diagnosis will speed up the patient’s access to any further treatment that they may need once they arrive at hospital.
Thank you to everyone who took part in our Christmas Raffle 2015. Over £83,000 and counting has been raised to support our life-saving service. Congratulations to all of our winners:
TOP PRIZE WINNERS
£50 M &S VOUCHER
Lord Beaverbrook visited us at our helipad last week in recognition of his support for the charity through the Beaverbrook Foundation.
The Foundation, which supports charitable causes both in the UK and overseas, has generously committed to donate £20,000 per year for the next three years to our Institute of Pre-Hospital Care (“The Institute”). The money donated will support two students with £10,000 each per annum, as part of the scholarship programme for our Intercalated BSc (“The iBSc”) in Pre-Hospital Medicine.
Our Chief Executive Officer, Graham Hodgkin, addressed guests at this year’s London’s Air Ambulance Christmas Carol Service:
Spreading festive cheer in the capital, we hosted our annual Christmas Carol Service this week (14 December), filling the enchanting St Andrew Holborn Church with the sound of Christmas to raise funds to support our work. Over 250 guests attended, and over £10,000 was raised from the evening.
This month we have welcomed two lottery winners to our helipad in recognition of their support — Lynda Stevens, with her husband Ron, and Frank Colet, with his wife Marion.
Both scooped the top prize of £1,000 in our weekly lottery, which raises vital funds each year for the charity. They are one of the 39,000 hopefuls across London who donate to us to be in with a chance of winning a cash prize.
We were delighted to be the beneficiaries of MBN Events ‘Sporting Speaker of the Year 2015’ lunch on Friday 27 November, which raised just under £16,500 for the charity.
The lunch in central London welcomed familiar faces of the sporting world to its stage, including former England football player Paul Gascoigne and former England rugby union player Austin Healey. Funds were raised through a live auction, where prizes included an England 1966 World Cup shirt, signed by the only player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final, Sir Geoff Hurst.
Inaccurate reports in the media are stating that London’s Air Ambulance airlifted actor Harrison Ford at an incident in Buckinghamshire last summer. It was in fact the county’s serving air ambulance — Thames Valley Air Ambulance — that attended the scene.
To view Thames Valley’s Air Ambulance’s statement see here.
Cyclist Paul Heath has taken on the mighty Death Valley Challenge, cycling 391km across the desert and raising over £6,000 for us and Midlands Air Ambulance Charity.
In just five days, Paul rode the dramatic and uninhabitable landscape, which included 11,000ft high mountain ranges, plummeting to 282ft below sea level, and in temperatures ranging from 36°C to -3°C. Located in Eastern California, the valley is the hottest and driest area of North America, and renowned for being home to one of the toughest cycle routes in the world.
