Amazing Facts about your Air Ambulance
The First Air Ambulance Charity serving Cornwall was established in 1987.
The most recent - Hertfordshire - in 2008.
Facts
30 Helicopters leased or owned and in service for the 18 Air Ambulance charities plus 2 Operated by the Scottish Ambulance Service.
We collectively undertake over 19,000 missions in a year and serve 177 accident and emergency departments
- 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:
- 60 pilots.
- Medical Teams encompassing: Consultants, Specialist Registrars, GPs, Emergency Care Practitioners, Paramedics. Technicians and Nurses.
Money
According to Charity Commission records, Air Ambulance Charities collectively generate an annual income of £46M.
This equates to nearly £875,000 each week or £125,000 every day.
Nationally, Air Ambulance Lotteries raise £5M in a year from around 100,000 members - and numbers are growing all the time.
On average a mission costs £1,229
The average spend per helicopter is £843,000 pa
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 £30M 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.
