Since 1989, London’s Air Ambulance Charity has been providing a 24 hour a day, 365 days a year, advanced trauma service to London’s most injured patients, the first such service in the UK to carry a senior doctor on board, as well as paramedics. 

Dr. Richard Earlam founded the charity (which works alongside the NHS) in response to a report documenting the number of trauma patients that died needlessly due to the delay in getting them prompt and appropriate medical assistance.

Today, London’s Air Ambulance Charity serves a population of 10 million people in Greater London, responding to an average of five patients a day and reaching any scene within 11 minutes of receiving the call. They effectively take the hospital to the patient and can perform life saving procedures such as open heart surgery and blood transfusions at the roadside; procedures normally only found in an emergency room. The quick intervention and the incredibly high level of medical assistance they provide means that the patients they attend have not only the best chance of survival, but the best quality of life after trauma.

Running London's Air Ambulance costs £15 million a year and their two helicopters are coming to the end of their life and another £15 million is needed by September to replace them. London’s Air Ambulance Charity appeal is called ‘Up Against Time’ and this year I’ve decided to see if I can raise a little bit of awareness about them and what they do, but also the fact that they’re a charity. They are completely reliant on donations …from the very people they serve.

On the 27th and 28th of July, I’ll be doing 24 hours of London walking tours over the two days (because LAA are a 24-hour service). I will be starting in Victoria at 9am on the Saturday and doing a continuous route (just over 20 miles) through the capital in a series of back-to-back 1.5 hour walks (12 hours each day) which will end at approximately 10pm on the Sunday evening in Whitechapel outside the Royal London Hospital where the London’s Air Ambulance Charity have their helipad. 

This page is for people unable to attend the fundraising walks in July, but would still like to support London's Air Ambulance Charity in their appeal Your donation will be very gratefully received and help save lives.