London’s Air Ambulance has won fundraising technology in the Bidtec Challenge, thanks to the support it has received in an online voting. The charity managed to share their post to thousands of supporters by asking everyone in London to share the challenge ‘Let’s get all of London sharing our application!’ Bidtec announced that the first two charities that will receive their fundraising event service for free are London’s Air Ambulance and T2T2T in aid of ABF, the Soldier’s Charity.

On 20th -21st April, Jonathan Sinyor (12) and Jamie Fattal (13) played table tennis for 2 days in aid of London’s Air Ambulance, the charity that delivers an advanced trauma team to critically injured people in London. The boys estimate they have raised close to £4,000 during the Easter break.

If you had signed up to the London's Air Ambulance lottery, you might receive a phone call one day. That is what happened to Eileen. 

“Having supported several charities, many of them call me regularly only to ask me to donate more money," says Eileen.

"Are you calling me to tell me I had won £1,000?' I asked not trying to hide the sarcasm. 'Yes, and we would like to invite you to our helipad,” was the reply."

Doctors, paramedics and nurses from The Royal London Hospital are racing 3,500km across India in rickshaw for our charity. The event, taking place 3rd - 16th April sees them venturing between the two ends of India across the desert, jungle and urban sprawl, using possibly the most unsuitable motorised vehicle for the job at hand - a 140cc Rickshaw with a top speed of 55kmph (when going downhill). 

When John Power, Chief Fire Officer at London’s Air Ambulance joined the charity on 1st April 1994, his ex-colleagues at Battersea Heliport joked that doing it on a Fool’s Day was rather telling — leaving a stable job for a charity whose future was unpredictable seemed foolish to many. “We were always fighting our corner and no one could be sure if London’s Air Ambulance would be around the next year’” says John. It has been exactly 20 years today.

Statement re: £1m to support a second air ambulance for London

Commenting on the announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer today that London’s Air Ambulance is to be awarded £1 million to enable the charity to operate a second helicopter covering the capital, Chief Executive Officer, Graham Hodgkin said:  

The world-leading, innovative London's Air Ambulance sets a benchmark of excellence with its dedicated pilots who negotiate London’s landmarks to access scenes of serious injury, and an advanced trauma team who take the Emergency Department to the streets.

Recent top prize winners Mr and Mrs Rand visited London's Air Ambulance helipad for a tour of the aircraft and operations. The couple even witnessed the helicopter take off for a mission.

When London's Air Ambulance announced its weekly lottery winners, Mrs Rand could not believe they won.  Her husband had to double check the results on the Lottery section of our website.They kindly donated 10% of their £1,000 lottery prize to the charity. 

Their Royal Highnesses (TRH) The Earl and Countess of Wessex visited London’s Air Ambulance today as part of a tour around two charities supported by the Wessex Youth Trust (“the Trust”) on the Earl’s 50th Birthday.  TRH The Earl and Countess of Wessex awarded London’s Air Ambulance a grant for over £10,000 in November 2013 towards paediatric training manikins through the Trust.

This new series looks at innovations in emergency medicine and the improvements in patient outcomes as a result of doctor-led pre-hospital care and fast-tracking heart attack/cardiac arrest, stroke and trauma patients to specialist centres.