"I decided to volunteer for London’s Air Ambulance to develop new skills and to give something back to the community," says student Rabeya Choudhury who most weeks can be found manning our hospital shop.
“I wanted to do something that was outside of my studies and volunteering for London’s Air Ambulance has allowed me to do something different while contributing to a very worthy cause”.
“I definitely recommend looking into the volunteering opportunities at London’s Air Ambulance because you can get involved in a wide variety of different things. I enjoy my admin role because I get to work across all teams and develop my office skills at the same time”.
Alice joined us as a volunteer in November 2013 and can be regularly found busily working away at our Charity office on Philpot Lane (Monument).
London’s Air Ambulance has collected two key awards at the 2014 Air Ambulance Awards of Excellence. This year's recognition went to the PR campaign marking London’s Air Ambulance’s 25th anniversary and to 5 year-old JJ Butcher who swam 200 metres to raise over £2,000 after his uncle was treated by the service.
Every day, London’s Air Ambulance tends to the most critically injured people in London. The doctors, paramedics and pilots from the charity face distressing, life and death situations on a regular basis. You could argue this makes an opportunity to make a little girl’s dream come true even more heart-warming for them.
London’s Air Ambulance has received a ‘Life Saver’ award from Word 4 Weapons, recognising the work the charity does responding to and treating casualties of gun and knife crime in the Capital.
So far this year (1 January to 30 September), we have treated 1,303 patients, of these 328 were either stabbed or shot.
Executive Chairman, Carl Palmer found himself at a dizzying height on a helipad above the seventeenth floor of The Royal London Hospital as he marked the launch of a fundraising partnership between the London’s Air Ambulance Charity and CIS Security. The company, which holds professional security services contracts for many high profile buildings dotted around the city, is planning a schedule of activities, culminating in Palmer venturing on the Clipper around-the-world sailing race.
Charity Times has recognised London’s Air Ambulance Chief Executive, Graham Hodgkin, as the winner of this year’s 2014 Rising CEO Star award.
A former Managing Director at Deutsche Bank, Graham Hodgkin was appointed in November 2012 and has lead the charity through its recent stages of growth and development.
For 25 years London's Air Ambulance has been at the forefront of emergency pre-hospital medicine, gaining a reputation for clinical excellence and pioneering procedures which have been adopted across the world.
We have achieved survival figures for traumatic cardiac arrest and pre-hospital thoracotomy, and success rates for adult and paediatric intubation, which are among the highest in the world.
Hundreds of people put their ‘head in the hole’ and their hand in their pocket in support of London’s Air Ambulance during National Air Ambulance Week.
Appearing at Old Spitalfields Market, The Royal London Hospital, Regents Place and the Old Truman Brewery, the charity team was out in force encouraging people to get on board and join them in saving lives. View our ‘head in the hole’ gallery to see if your photo made it.
After 11 years of pursuing this goal, Dr Kate Crewdson joined London’s Air Ambulance. “I remember standing at the helipad and hearing the aircraft take off for a mission. It was very emotional. I recall thinking : I have done it. I am here,” says Kate. As her secondment at London’s Air Ambulance comes to an end, she reflects on the experience itself as well as the journey that preceded it. “It was definitely a life-long dream coming true. I have learned more in 6 months with London’s Air Ambulance than in 6 years of qualifying as a doctor.”
