Hampshire & IOW Air Ambulance
Our Club Captain for 2024, Mr Don Hobbs has chosen to support Hampshire & IOW Air Ambulance as his chosen charity for his year as Captain.
Hampshire & IOW Air Ambulance is the charity that delivers an advanced critical care team to sick and injured people in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight when they need it most. Available both day and night, 365 days a year, the Air Ambulance critical care team is called out many times a day to attend road traffic collisions, sporting accidents, collapses and many other incidents.
The Air Ambulance and charity critical team vehicles are operational 7 days a week and attend an average of 6 missions per day, many of them life-saving. They operate from 7am until 2am every day. The Air Ambulance can be anywhere in Hampshire within 15 minutes and the Isle of Wight within 20 minutes. They also work with neighbouring Air Ambulance charities can assist them when required
It costs approximately £15,000 per day to keep this vital service operational!
The critical care teams are made up of specialist critical care Paramedics, HEMS doctors and pilots. The highly skilled teams are equipped with state of the art technology and advanced medication. They can be at the scene of an accident within minutes ready to deliver the same level of care that would expect from a hospital emergency department.
Many people do not realise they are a charity. Whilst they work in partnership with university hospital Southampton and South Central Ambulance service who are funded by the NHS they rely entirely on donations from the community to carry out there life-saving service.
The Captain will be running competitions and events where proceeds will be raised to go towards this charity and you can give at the collection tins in the clubhouse (particularly for fines!!)
Thank you advance for your support
Don Hobbs
Club Captain
