Children’s Air Ambulance (TCAA) is a national service, changing the face of paediatric and neonatal care through the high-speed transfer of critically ill babies and children and flying them from one hospital to another for specialist care.
How You Can Help
- Simply book your next holiday with Charitable Travel and tell us you want to support Childrens Air Ambulance. The charity will then benefit from the free donation you can make as part of the booking process. To read more about how this works, head to our ‘About Us‘ page.
- If you want to make a donation to Childrens Air Ambulance and you are not booking a holiday, click here to visit their website.
- Visit childrensairambulance.org.uk to sign up to newsletters, and follow the Childrens Air Ambulance social media pages and help spread the word.
How You Can Help
- Simply book your next holiday with Charitable Travel and tell us you want to support Childrens Air Ambulance. The charity will then benefit from the free donation you can make as part of the booking process. To read more about how this works, head to our ‘About Us‘ page.
- If you want to make a donation to Childrens Air Ambulance and you are not booking a holiday, click here to visit their website.
- Visit childrensairambulance.org.uk to sign up to newsletters, and follow the Childrens Air Ambulance social media pages and help spread the word.
The clinically designed helicopters – one based at London Oxford Airport and the other at Gamston (Retford) Airport – provide flying intensive care units for babies and children.
We work with 11 NHS paediatric retrieval teams across the UK, enabling them to bring their specialist equipment on board to safely transfer their patients from one hospital to another. If a child is too sick to fly, then the Children’s Air Ambulance can fly a specialist team directly to them.
All transfers of critically ill babies and children carry an inherent risk – the longer a child is out of the hospital, the greater that risk. With our ability to fly approximately four times faster than a land ambulance by road, we can minimise travel times and risk.
We receive no government funding and rely entirely on voluntary donations to raise the £3,500 needed for every mission. Your support will help to keep hope alive for these patients and their families, like Harry’s.
This year we are celebrating our 10th anniversary of the Children’s Air Ambulance and without your support, we simply wouldn’t be here. Every donation we receive goes a long way to keeping us flying lifesaving transfer missions for critically ill children.
What better way for us to celebrate 10 years of the Children’s Air Ambulance than our first-ever Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) patient transfer. That’s not all – we have also carried out our 600th patient transfer and developed our new Neonatal Transport Systems (incubators). These systems have been designed especially for our new AgustaWestland 169 helicopters and are the first incubators on a rotary-wing aircraft in England.
Children’s Air Ambulance charity is continually looking at ways to increase support to the NHS and the clinical teams it works alongside. By introducing pioneering developments through donations from sites such as this, the service is really leading the way in paediatric and neonatal aeromedical transfers.
Get in touch
Children’s Air Ambulance, Blue Skies House, Butlers Leap, Rugby, CV21 3RQ
Charity number 1111780.
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