I have decided to join the Base to Base Challenge because you never know when you, or someone you know may require the assistance of the Ambucopter and its amazing team. I work at RAF Waddington where the helicopter is based, so I get to see first-hand how frequently the Air Ambulance is scrambled to emergencies. 

As a volunteer blood biker for Lincolnshire Emergency Blood Bikers (LEBBS), I deliver emergency blood to LNAA on a regular basis. Because of this, I am aware of how much effort and resource is required to keep the Air Ambulance on standby and ready to respond.

The Ambucopter and its amazing crew travel approximately 100km to reach a patient, transport them to hospital and then travel back to their base at RAF Waddington, on average they are scrambled three times a day, therefore I am aiming to complete the challenge not once or twice but TEN times throughout the month of September, which equates to 1,000km, a whopping 1 MILLION METERS!

Growing up in Nottinghamshire and spending most of my career in Lincolnshire, as a biker I couldn’t think of a more valuable cause to help raise funds for. I intend to raise as much as I can for LNAA by cycling when I can throughout the month of September, despite myself and my wife, who is a midwife and neonatal specialist at Kingsmill Hospital in Mansfield, welcoming our first child, George Trevor who was born in July.