How Trusts and Foundations support our service

Anyone can find themselves in need of expert and timely medical care. But whether a medical or trauma-related incident, Devon Air Ambulance's lifesaving service is there for our patients every day of the year. 

We are proud to be independent of government funding. Devon Air Ambulance is driven by a set of specific needs, such as the unique demographics, geography and terrain of the county. Our independence allows our highly-skilled clinical staff to enhance the service’s capabilities and our team to receive additional, specialist training, which enables them to deliver an increased range of clinical interventions and procedures as well as prescribing.

Trusts and Foundations are highly valued contributors towards Devon Air Ambulance, and we are so grateful to the grant-making Trusts  that make a lasting difference to our service. 

Work with us to make a real difference

We build unique partnerships with the Trusts and Foundations that support us and have different areas of our work that need funding.  Wherever you would like to focus your support, your help will keep us at the frontline of saving lives. For example:

• You might want to contribute towards our core running costs, to ensure our crews can continue to respond to life-threatening incidents every day.
• You might wish to support a particular piece of essential lifesaving equipment, such as the Hamilton T1 ventilator (£17,000). When a patient isn’t breathing for themselves, either after we have delivered an anaesthetic, or when they have suffered a cardiac arrest, this device ensures the patient’s lungs are ventilated without the need for us to manually deliver breaths to the patient.
• You could pay for a new uniform and kit for a member of our crew, which can cost over £2,000 per crew member.
• You could support the costs of day-to-day items such as blizzard blankets (£22 each), the Lyoplas blood bags we use (£252 each), or cover the cost of replacing the contents of our response bags (approximately £2,500).
• You could fund the purchase of training equipment such as the life-size mannequins the crew use to practise challenging clinical techniques. 

How we will support you

We are extremely grateful to the Trusts and Foundations whose ongoing support enable us to continue to undertake hundreds of missions every year.

From Devon Air Ambulance you can expect:

• Regular updates and reports so you can see the impact of your contribution.
• The chance to join our crew at the airbase to learn more about our story and our work.
• A Philanthropy Manager to answer any queries. 

For more information about how to support us as a Trust or Foundation, please contact Ally Bennett, Philanthropy Manager - +44 (0)7904 970 408, [email protected].