Air Ambulance bases
The HELP Appeal is best known for funding hospital helipads. But this isn’t all we do to help air ambulances save the time it takes to get a critically ill patient to hospital.
By funding new and improved helipad bases at various Air Ambulance Charities across the country, we are helping by providing the funds allowing the Air Ambulance Charities to concentrate on their core activities.
To date we have made significant donations to the following Air Ambulances, thereby ensuring that their bases meet the needs of an increasingly busy and demanding service:
- Midlands AA (Cosford and Strensham)
- Great Western AA
- Wiltshire AA
- AA Kent Surrey Sussex
- London’s AA
- Lincs & Notts AA
- Great North AA
- Scotland’s Charity AA
- East Anglian AA
“We are extremely grateful to THE HELP Appeal for their generosity in donating £250,000 for our new helipad. The funding has enabled us to build the best possible helipad, which will ultimately help us to save lives. This is because our pilots and paramedics will have immediate access to the aircraft as their room is close to the helipad, saving valuable seconds.
“The trace heating on the helipad is a new benefit for our operation. Instead of the aircrew having to clear away ice and snow off the helipad manually, the trace heating will clear it automatically. Not only will this be safer working conditions for our aircrew, but it will also enhance our response times in inclement weather.”