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Get ready for 'take off' at our Runway Runaround on Sunday 25 March at Newquay Cornwall Airport

Have you been airlifted? Please share your story with us...

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Welcome to Cornwall Air Ambulance

Welcome to the official website for Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust.
To keep your air ambulance flying in 2012, the charity will need your help to raise around £1.7 million.
Use this website to find out more information about us

2012 is particularly exciting because it is our 25th year of flying, made more pertinent because we were the first county in the UK to fund an air ambulance. The slogan on the helicopter says it all – ‘Funded by the people of Cornwall’. To celebrate this achievement (of which we should all be very proud!) we are organising several events throughout the year and we hope that you will join us at one of them

Things we need help with right now....

Lead air crew Steve needs a new headset and flying helmet as after 8 years hard work, the one he has now has been deemed beyond economic repair. Could you sponsor a replacement costing £1,600?

Have you been airlifted?

It may surprise you to know that because of patient confidentiality and red tape, as a charity, we don't know who you are! We need YOU to contact US and tell us your story. Please help us now if you think your story will help inspire others to fundraise. This is critical to ensuring that the air ambulance is there, free at the point of need, for the next person who needs it. Use the "contact us" feature at the top of this page and get in touch now!

We know that everyone is feeling the pinch however we need to raise £1.7 million pounds a year just to keep the helicopter flying and with no sign of funding from central government we rely entirely on fundraising and would be grounded without it!

Our helicopter is one of the busiest due to our population being widely scattered (and a long way from a hospital), clogged up roads during the summer, our love of ‘extreme sports’ and our beaches, moorlands and cliff tops being inaccessible by road.

In 2012, we are also asking everyone in Cornwall to get involved and organise their own fundraising event. We can provide you with everything you need from tips and advice to sponsor forms, posters, collection buckets and t-shirts as well as our charity logo for you to use for any promotion you might have planned. Please do let us know if you plan anything and whether you would like a Cornwall Air ambulance representative to attend the event.

The new Operations Facility for Cornwall Air Ambulance is nearing completion in early 2012.

This project is part financed by the European Union with £949,760 from the European Regional Development Fund 2007-2013 through the Department for Communities and Local Government under the Convergence Operating Programme.

Further infomation about this project can be found here

Cornwall Air Ambulance Mission Counter

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You can now make donations online

There are plenty of other ways to help.
Read here about other ways to help your Cornwall
Air Ambulance, help them today, you may need them tomorrow.