We're incredibly excited and very proud that The Children's Air Ambulance, one of the three vital services ran by The Air Ambulance Service, has carried out it's very first baby transfer. Little baby Theo was just one day old when he was flown from Scarborough to Hull - a flight which took just 15 minutes but which would have taken over an hour by land ambulance. It's taken 18 months of hard work from The Air Ambulance Service staff and volunteers, as well as incredibly generous support from members of the public, and to read such a fanastic story and to see the difference that The Children's Air Ambulance has made, really does make it all worthwhile.
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Thursday, 7 February 2013
Why I love my job...
.... By Fundraising Co-ordinator Faye Wilson.
Monday morning, look through my emails, there’s one from a school asking for an assembly, one from a WI group saying that they would like to make a donation, I’ve got a couple from my corporate supporters among the other usual emails that build up after a weekend. It’s already a good week when you’ve got people waiting in your inbox wanting to support the work that you and your charity are doing….certainly no Monday Morning blues here!!
In the evening I’m out at a networking event, it gives me a chance to talk to new people about the charity I work for – The Children’s Air Ambulance. We’re a new charity and we provide an air transfer service for critically ill children, it’s an interesting and exciting topic and one that people are quick to support and one they want to learn more about, I come away with some good new contacts and know that those people I’ve spoken to will go home and tell their families about the charity and the work we do.
Wednesday – today I spoke to new volunteers, people who have heard about us at a talk or read about us in the local paper, it’s fantastic speaking to people who are as passionate about a service as you are, people who have had experience of having to transfer their child & who know the difference an air transfer service will make to critically ill children, or people who have specific skills and are willing to put those to use for the charity. Again I’m meeting new people who want to help; again it’s a good day….no mid-week hump here!!
Thursday, I have a meeting set up with someone who wants to put on an event for us, the event will help us raise funds and awareness for the charity and sounds like a brilliant idea, I can’t wait to help organise and really look forward to being able to attend the event later on in the day. On Friday it’s time to catch up with other members of the team, we share contacts, things that have worked well or that haven’t and look at ways that we can work together to better promote The Children’s Air Ambulance as we build up to our launch in March.
It’s been a busy but typical week working as a Fundraiser for The Children’s Air Ambulance – so why do I love my job so much, well as you’ll have read I get to meet lots of different people, and the overwhelming response from the people I meet is ‘how can I help you’ and that’s the great thing about working for a charity like this – people want to help, it motivates me through those days when I’d really rather have an extra half an hour in bed and always puts a smile on my face.
So I guess the main reason I love my job is that I know I’m not doing it alone, I’m not even just doing it with my colleagues - I have students, businesses and community groups who are all helping too – and the thing we’re all striving to achieve is to help save young lives, and if you can log off at the end of the day knowing that you’re working towards that, well need you ask why I love my job?!
Find out more about how Love Is In The Air this Valentine's Day.
Monday morning, look through my emails, there’s one from a school asking for an assembly, one from a WI group saying that they would like to make a donation, I’ve got a couple from my corporate supporters among the other usual emails that build up after a weekend. It’s already a good week when you’ve got people waiting in your inbox wanting to support the work that you and your charity are doing….certainly no Monday Morning blues here!!
In the evening I’m out at a networking event, it gives me a chance to talk to new people about the charity I work for – The Children’s Air Ambulance. We’re a new charity and we provide an air transfer service for critically ill children, it’s an interesting and exciting topic and one that people are quick to support and one they want to learn more about, I come away with some good new contacts and know that those people I’ve spoken to will go home and tell their families about the charity and the work we do.
Wednesday – today I spoke to new volunteers, people who have heard about us at a talk or read about us in the local paper, it’s fantastic speaking to people who are as passionate about a service as you are, people who have had experience of having to transfer their child & who know the difference an air transfer service will make to critically ill children, or people who have specific skills and are willing to put those to use for the charity. Again I’m meeting new people who want to help; again it’s a good day….no mid-week hump here!!
Thursday, I have a meeting set up with someone who wants to put on an event for us, the event will help us raise funds and awareness for the charity and sounds like a brilliant idea, I can’t wait to help organise and really look forward to being able to attend the event later on in the day. On Friday it’s time to catch up with other members of the team, we share contacts, things that have worked well or that haven’t and look at ways that we can work together to better promote The Children’s Air Ambulance as we build up to our launch in March.
It’s been a busy but typical week working as a Fundraiser for The Children’s Air Ambulance – so why do I love my job so much, well as you’ll have read I get to meet lots of different people, and the overwhelming response from the people I meet is ‘how can I help you’ and that’s the great thing about working for a charity like this – people want to help, it motivates me through those days when I’d really rather have an extra half an hour in bed and always puts a smile on my face.
So I guess the main reason I love my job is that I know I’m not doing it alone, I’m not even just doing it with my colleagues - I have students, businesses and community groups who are all helping too – and the thing we’re all striving to achieve is to help save young lives, and if you can log off at the end of the day knowing that you’re working towards that, well need you ask why I love my job?!
Find out more about how Love Is In The Air this Valentine's Day.
Friday, 4 January 2013
My New Years' resolution is to help save young lives... what's yours?
Today we're handing the blog over to one of our lovely Fundraising Managers, Faye Wilson, who tells us all about what makes a great New Years' resolutions.......
Another Christmas and New Year over and it’s time to head back to work or school. We’re saying hello to friends and colleagues again for the first time in 2013 and probably being faced with the same set of questions….How was your Christmas? Did you have a good New Year? Have you made any New Year’s Resolutions?
Before listing the same old tired resolutions I thought I better do a quick Google search and have a look at some of the most popular ones around – yes, eat less and go to the gym more made it into the top 10, but far more often I saw resolutions like help others, learn something new, do something for charity; It seems that rather than resolving to give something up, we’re far more in favour of resolving to do something or take something on in 2013.
Whether you’re one of the people resolving to take something up this year or you’re one of the people planning to spend less time in front of the TV or on Facebook (yep they made the list of top resolutions as well!) then why not consider becoming a volunteer for The Children’s Air Ambulance.
So why not give us a ring (08454 130 999) or visit our website and have a chat to see how we can help you keep your New Years’ Resolution this year – then when you’re friend or colleague asks you "What’s your New Year’s Resolution" you can tell them that you’ve resolved to help save young lives, because ultimately that’s what volunteering for us will mean, and I bet you won’t find that resolution on many Google lists!
Another Christmas and New Year over and it’s time to head back to work or school. We’re saying hello to friends and colleagues again for the first time in 2013 and probably being faced with the same set of questions….How was your Christmas? Did you have a good New Year? Have you made any New Year’s Resolutions?
Before listing the same old tired resolutions I thought I better do a quick Google search and have a look at some of the most popular ones around – yes, eat less and go to the gym more made it into the top 10, but far more often I saw resolutions like help others, learn something new, do something for charity; It seems that rather than resolving to give something up, we’re far more in favour of resolving to do something or take something on in 2013.
Whether you’re one of the people resolving to take something up this year or you’re one of the people planning to spend less time in front of the TV or on Facebook (yep they made the list of top resolutions as well!) then why not consider becoming a volunteer for The Children’s Air Ambulance.
Volunteering isn’t just a great way to support a charity or
help others, it’s also a great way to learn something new and meet new people.
There are so many different ways to volunteer for The
Children’s Air Ambulance that we’re bound to have a role to suit you – have you
always wanted to improve your public speaking skills or do you have a group of
friends that would be great at organising events? Whatever you want from your
resolution this year then taking on a volunteering role can likely provide the
answer. So why not give us a ring (08454 130 999) or visit our website and have a chat to see how we can help you keep your New Years’ Resolution this year – then when you’re friend or colleague asks you "What’s your New Year’s Resolution" you can tell them that you’ve resolved to help save young lives, because ultimately that’s what volunteering for us will mean, and I bet you won’t find that resolution on many Google lists!
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Universal Children's Day
Today is Universal Children’s Day – a day created in 1954 to help celebrate and protect children.
Here at The Air Ambulance Service, we like to think that we’ll be doing our bit to help protect children by providing them with a service that will ensure critically ill children and babies get the treatment they need as safely and as quickly as is possible.
We already have our helicopter for The Children’s Air Ambulance, and early next year our lifesaving service will begin transferring poorly children from local district hospitals across England and Wales to specialist paediatric intensive care units – vastly reducing the time it currently takes to transfer children between hospitals, cutting stress and potentially saving children’s lives.
These children certainly think it’s a great idea!
If you’d like to help get this vital service off the ground, donate now.
Here at The Air Ambulance Service, we like to think that we’ll be doing our bit to help protect children by providing them with a service that will ensure critically ill children and babies get the treatment they need as safely and as quickly as is possible.
We already have our helicopter for The Children’s Air Ambulance, and early next year our lifesaving service will begin transferring poorly children from local district hospitals across England and Wales to specialist paediatric intensive care units – vastly reducing the time it currently takes to transfer children between hospitals, cutting stress and potentially saving children’s lives.
These children certainly think it’s a great idea!
If you’d like to help get this vital service off the ground, donate now.
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