The North West Air Ambulance Charity does not receive any government or NHS funding. The charity relies completely on public and corporate donations. The North West Air Ambulance Charity must raise over £18 million every year to continue its lifesaving services.

Since we launched in 1999, the charity has been called to over 45,000 missions across the region, with the service called out an average of three times a day.

Our helicopters and critical care vehicles operate 365 days a year, with highly skilled specialist doctors and critical care paramedics on board providing enhanced pre-hospital care and hospital transfers to patients across the entire North West each year – an area covering 5,500 square miles and over 8 million people.