Amazing Facts about your Air Ambulance
The First Air Ambulance Charity serving Cornwall was established in 1987.
The most recent - Warwickshire & Northamptonshire - in 2003.
Facts
22 Helicopters in service for the 16 Air Ambulance charities.
We collectively undertake 17,500 missions in a year
- 40% Road Traffic Collisions.
- 24% Other Medical Emergencies.
- 3% Hospital Transfers.
Collectively the Air Ambulances are the busiest voluntary emergency services in the country
Air Ambulances work with:
- 35 pilots.
- Medical Teams encompassing: Consultants, Specialist Registrars, GPs, Emergency Care Practitioners, Paramedics. Technicians and Nurses.
Money
Air Ambulance Charities collectively generate an annual income of £25M (most recent figures available from Charity Commission).
This equates to nearly £500,000 each week or £70,000 every day.
Nationally, Air Ambulance Lotteries raise £5M in a year from around 100,000 members - and numbers are growing all the time.
Collectively Air Ambulance charities only spend a very respectable 14% of their income on fundraising costs.
Air Ambulance charities spend £15M in the helicopter industry annually.
Brand Power and Buying Power
Air Ambulances use nearly 2.5M litres of fuel in a year (130 litres per mission).
We spend over £20M on providing our life saving service - the majority of this sum is spent in the helicopter industry.
It is estimated that Air Ambulances generate approximately £10M worth of media coverage each year - £800k per month.
Air Ambulance Charities are represented at over 1500 events each year, reaching in the region of 2.5 million people across the UK.
It is estimated that collectively, air ambulance charities have a database of in excess of one quarter of a million donors, predominantly in social demographic grouping B, C1, C2.
