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SPRING/SUMMER 2019 /AMBUCOPTER @LNAACT AMBUCOPTER.ORG.UK CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF SAVING LIVES SOUVENIR ISSUE We’re celebrating our incredible Helicopter Emergency Medical Service and the thousands of patients we have tended to over the last 25 years MORE ON PAGE 4 THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE LINCS & NOTTS AIR AMBULANCE WHAT’S ON... DEAR SUPPORTERS of our Crew and Ambucopter. The resilience and Throughout 2019, many people Saturday 8th AUGUST I am delighted to welcome you to this bravery of our patients and their families has been truly across Lincolnshire and RANSKILL SCARECROW special souvenir edition of SkyShout, Saturday 3rd humbling. It has been fantastic for us to learn first- Nottinghamshire have chosen FESTIVAL SAUSAGE & CIDER FESTIVAL celebrating 25 years of the Lincs & Notts hand what a significant difference the Lincs & Notts Air to support the Lincs & Notts Nottingham The Black Horse Inn, Air Ambulance. Ambulance has made to so many people’s lives. Air Ambulance in various ways, Sunday 9th Donington on Bain including hosting a wide range Thank you to everyone who has been involved GOLF CHARITY DAY From those early days of operating out of a portacabin of fundraising events. Here are with or supported our Charity over the years – our Southwell Golf Club, Occupation Wednesday 7th and only able to fly when we had raised the money success is all down to you. We look forward to just some of the fundraising Lane, Southwell LARK IN THE PARK to do so, to our helicopter now flying 365 days a year your continued support to ensure that Lincolnshire events taking place in the West Bridgford and gearing up for full 24-hour operations, our service and Nottinghamshire continue to have a first-class coming months to help celebrate Wednesday 19th has been called upon almost 20,000 times over the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service for many years our 25th Anniversary… – Thursday 20th Tuesday 13th last 25 years. We have helped literally thousands of to come. LINCOLNSHIRE SHOW CHARITY GOLF DAY people during their greatest hour of need, and we are MAY Lincolnshire Showground Blankney Golf Club, incredibly proud to be providing the very best critical Lincoln Road, Lincoln We hope you’ll never need us, but if you do we’ll be there. care possible to people across Lincolnshire and Saturday 11th Thursday 27th Nottinghamshire. HARTSHOMLE COUNTRY LINCOLN SEPTEMBER PARK SPRING FAIR CASTLE2COAST2CASTLE Our 25th Anniversary is not only a huge milestone in Lincoln CYCLE (C2C2C) Sunday 8th the history of the Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance, but it Lincoln to Skegness GREAT NORTH RUN is an opportunity to look back on how we have been Saturday 11th able to make a positive impact on the lives of many Newcastle upon Tyne – Sunday 12th Saturday 29th thousands of people over the years. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE EAST BRIDGFORD Karen Jobling COUNTY SHOW VILLAGE SHOW In the run up to our ‘birthday’, we have been truly Monday 9th – Sunday 15th Chief Executive Officer Newark Showground Butts Field, East Bridgford touched by many former patients who have reached NATIONAL AIR out to us to share their story after needing the help AMBULANCE WEEK JULY Monday 13th Details to be Saturday 13th announced soon at OUR 25TH HUMBERSIDE FIRE BIRTHDAY! ambucopter.org.uk & RESCUE DAY CONTACT US 7 Lakes Country Park, Crowle CONTENTS Celebrating our very first Celebrating 25 Years of Saving Lives 4 airlift of a poorly patient Saturday 13th Sunday 15th LINCS HEAD OFFICE LONDON TO 25 years ago today! RADCLIFFE-ON-TRENT LNAACT House, Bentley Drive, In Safe Hands 6 CARNIVAL BRIGHTON BIKE RIDE Bracebridge Heath, Lincoln, LN4 2QW Nottinghamshire 01522 548469 Help Us Celebrate our 25th Anniversary 8 Saturday 21st Saturday 18th Sunday 14th WEST BRIDGFORD [email protected] Equipped to Save Lives 10 HELICOPTER BALL HUMBERSTON LIONS PLANT FAIR Southview Hotel, Skegness NOTTS OFFICE – IT’S A KNOCKOUT New Horizons 12 Meridian Park, Cleethorpes Sunday 22nd Unit 2 Chase Park, Daleside Road Sunday 19th RIDE TO SAVE LIVES Nottingham, NG2 4GT Patient Story 13 WOODHALL SPA Friday 19th – Sunday 21st Newark Showground 0115 941 2255 Support From All Quarters 14 COUNTRY SHOW CARS N COFFEE SHOW Lincolnshire Saturday 28th Morgreen, Nottingham LOTTERY OFFICE HOTLINE Adopt-a-Bear 16 – Sunday 6th October 01522 531308 SAHARA TREK CHALLENGE JUNE Saturday 20th Your Lasting Legacy 17 LINCOLN DRAGON Sahara Desert WWW.AMBUCOPTER.ORG.UK Saturday 8th BOAT RACE Snapshot on Shops 18 BINGHAM SUMMER FAIR Brayford Pool, Lincoln @LNAACT What is Your Challenge? 20 Nottingham All details correct at the time of going to press. Facebook.com/Ambucopter Donation Form 22 To find out more or if you would like to hold an event to raise money Spotlight On... 23 for the Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance email [email protected] or call 01522 548469 (Lincs) or 0115 941 2255 (Notts). Thank you to Rob Inglis for photography We look forward to hearing from you. 2 SKYSHOUT WWW.AMBUCOPTER.ORG.UK SKYSHOUT 3 CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF SAVING LIVES We are incredibly proud to have been saving lives across our two counties for the last 25 2018 years, and what better way to celebrate our amazing service than to look back and reflect on how we have delivered our life-saving service and the patients we have helped. 24-hour operations begin In October 2018, we announced our Here’s a snapshot of how our Charity has evolved over the last 25 years: commitment to fly 24/7. We are now on call to fly 24 hours a day on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, and are working towards delivering a full 24-hour 1994 service, 7 days a week. This expanded 2013 service will enable us to give more Lift off for the patients the very best chance of survival. Our first night flight Blood on Board Lincolnshire Air Ambulance During the dark and cold winter months, We began carrying blood on board Our journey began as the Lincolnshire night vision equipment was fitted to Air Ambulance, with our first airlift our helicopter, enabling our crew the Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance, taking place on 13th May 1994. to undertake on-scene blood enabling us to fly in the hours of transfusions for the very first time. We darkness for the first time, allowing In those early days we operated out of are one of only six UK air ambulance us to extend our service and fly from a portacabin; our helicopter (an ex- charities to be able to deliver this 7.00am – 7.00pm every day of the year. Police Service Bölkow) only flew when precious resource at the scene. we had enough funding, meaning it was often grounded for months at a time whilst fundraising took place. MD902 Explorer 2000 A new era: our Explorer helicopter We said farewell to our very 1996 first helicopter and started the millennium with a new generation Service extended to of aircraft – an MD902 Explorer. 1991 Nottinghamshire The need and momentum for a Whilst the Bölkow only had enough Where it all began local air ambulance grew by the room for a patient plus three crew, our new helicopter could accommodate The concept of an air ambulance day and we soon extended our 2008 2017 2019 service to cover Nottinghamshire. a patient plus a crew of four – one for Lincolnshire is born, fuelled by We officially became the Lincs & pilot, a doctor and two paramedics. discussion between a number of local Our 10,000th Delivery of our AW169 20,000th mission Notts Air Ambulance one year later. doctors who identified the need for a fast mission takes place In June we took delivery of our This year, during our 25th year in critical care service for rural Lincolnshire. We helped our 10,000th patient in March brand new AgustaWestland 169. service, we will fly our 20,000th mission. 2008. Our crew were called to Grantham This state-of-the-art helicopter is Fundraising for the Charity began to help a rider who had been thrown bigger than any aircraft we have ever just one year later and our first, very off their horse. The patient suffered flown – offering head-to-toe access to gratefully received donation was £50 spinal injuries and was flown to Queen’s patients in-flight, travelling in excess cash, posted through our letterbox by Medical Centre in Nottingham for life- of 200mph with two pilots and up an elderly couple who had just married. saving treatment. to three clinical crew on board. 4 SKYSHOUT WWW.AMBUCOPTER.ORG.UK SKYSHOUT 5 MAKING SURE OUR PATIENTS ARE IN SAFE HANDS To mark 25 years of ensuring our patients are in the safe hands of the Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance, we’ve unveiled a unique design on the tail of our very own Ambucopter! Tracey's story The tail wrap, which can be seen on our Chris' story It took Tracey four long months helicopter tail for the rest of 2019, features to recover from the injuries she 25 pairs of hands – each reflecting one Up and coming championship sustained to her skull, feet, ankles, of our former patients who have once motorcyclist Chris suffered arms, legs, nose and fingers after she been in the safe hands of our crew. an intracranial bleed in his was involved in a horrifying car crash. skull after veering off track and into We’ve been reaching out to former patients a tyre wall at an estimated 120mph, Tracey was travelling with her boyfriend towards across Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, landing 78 metres down the track. Nottingham when their car collided head on with a small goods lorry.