Your Local Air Ambulance WNDLR

16/10/2026

🍂🧥 GET WINTER-READY AT YOUR LOCAL AIR AMBULANCE CHARITY SHOP! 🧣❄️

We’ve had a FULL CHANGEOVER of our clothing rails, and we’re ready to help you wrap up warm for the chilly months ahead! 🍁

🧥 Thick, cosy winter coats
🛏️ Warm blankets for those cold evenings
👕 Fresh winter clothing finds
💷 Bargains starting from just 50p!

Whether you’re looking for a winter wardrobe refresh or something cosy to keep you warm, pop in and have a browse. You never know what hidden gems you might find! 🛍️

❤️ Every purchase helps support our air ambulance charity, so you can grab yourself a bargain while helping support a fantastic cause.

📍 Come and see us in store — we look forward to welcoming you!

14/10/2026

Could you spare a few hours to support Your Local Air Ambulance? 💛

We’re looking for volunteers to join the team at our Ilkeston charity shop.

Volunteering is a great way to meet new people, build confidence, gain valuable experience and become part of your local community — all while helping to support our lifesaving service.

There are a range of ways you can get involved in store, and we’d love to hear from you.

Interested in joining us? Please email [email protected] to find out more.

Thank you for supporting Your Local Air Ambulance.

14/10/2026

12/10/2026

We’re getting ready to Go Together!

From 19–25 October, we’re joining communities across the country for Go Together Week in support of ourBig Bases Appeal.

And we’d love our local community to get involved too.

Get your workplace, school, club, friends or family together and choose a day to Go Yellow for Your Local Air Ambulance.

You could dress up, hold a bake sale, organise a quiz or tombola, or come up with your own colourful fundraising idea.

It doesn’t have to be complicated, just bring people together, have some fun and help raise vital funds.

Find out more and get involved:
💛 Go Yellow: bigbases.uk/GoYellow

If you’re taking part locally, let us know. We’d love to see what you’re planning!

22/09/2026

2026 so far, by the numbers… 🚁💛

Our crews have completed more than 2,500 missions this year:

1,389 by aircraft
1,111 by Critical Care Car
518 hours flown
38,700 miles driven
365 missions in May, our busiest month so far

The most common incidents we have attended were medical emergencies (44%), road traffic collisions (20%) and falls (9%).

Every mission costs around £2,500, and we receive no government funding. That means every donation, fundraising event, lottery entry, charity shop purchase and act of support helps keep our crews ready to respond.

Want to learn more? Explore our Mission Log below 👇

21/09/2026

Rally your workplace and Go Yellow Together! 💛📒⭐

From 19–25 October, we’re inviting workplaces across the region to bring their teams together for a yellow-themed fundraising day in support of Your Local Air Ambulance WNDLR.

Wear yellow, host a bake sale, run an office quiz, hold a raffle or challenge another department — however you choose to take part, every pound raised helps keep our crews ready to respond when every minute matters 🚁

Register TODAY and receive a free fundraising pack, including posters, stickers, cake flags, bunting and helpful fundraising tips. Share your yellow moments with .

A link to learn more and register is in the comments.

Photo credit: The wonderful GXO Thrapston team 💛

18/09/2026

Meet our newest member of the Your Local Air Ambulance WNDLR team! 🚁🌾

Two of our TCS London Marathon runners James and Eleanor have been getting creative with their fundraising by entering their local Duffield Scarecrow Festival with this brilliant YLAA-themed scarecrow.

It might not quite pass the HEMS medical, but it is certainly helping raise awareness and some vital funds for our charity! 💛

Now it needs a name, so tell us in the comments: what should this scarecrow be called?

16/09/2026

So far in 2026, our crews have completed more than 2,500 missions, an average of around 10.5 missions every day! 🚁

Leicestershire has been our most visited county, with 598 call-outs (24%), followed by Derbyshire with 430 call-outs (17%).

Although we are based across Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland, our crews go wherever they are needed. This year, 33% of missions have taken us beyond those counties, including to Lincolnshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire.

Learn more about our charity via the link in the comments 💛

Photo credit: John Routledge

15/09/2026

Our Critical Care Cars are an essential part of our lifesaving service 🚑💛

So far this year, they have attended more than 1,100 missions and covered over 38,000 miles — helping our crews reach patients quickly, day and night.

Just like our helicopters, each car carries a critical care paramedic and doctor, along with specialist equipment that brings emergency hospital-level care directly to the patient. They are used when an incident is quicker to reach by road, when poor weather prevents flying and throughout the night.

Learn more about our Critical Care Cars via the link in the comments 👇

14/09/2026

286 missions. One month 💛

Throughout August, our crews were called to 286 missions across our communities – an average of more than 9 missions every single day.

🚁 191 missions by helicopter
🚑 95 missions by Critical Care Car
🚗 3,299 miles covered by our Critical Care Cars

From medical emergencies and road traffic collisions to falls and other serious incidents, our crews continued to be there when people needed specialist critical care most.

We receive no regular government funding for our daily missions, and each mission costs around £2,500. Your support helps keep our crews flying and our Critical Care Cars on the road.

Please donate today and help us continue to be there for the next patient who needs us 💛

11/09/2026

Every day, our crews attend around 10 lifesaving missions 🚁💛

That could mean responding to a serious medical emergency, a road traffic collision, a fall or another life-threatening incident, often when every second matters.

Each mission costs around £2,500, and we receive no government or National Lottery funding for our daily missions. That means it is the support of people like you that helps keep us ready to respond.

If you support our crews, please leave a 💛 in the comments and share this post to help more people understand the difference local support makes.

10/09/2026

Have you read the latest Sky’s The Limit yet?

This issue includes a personal welcome from Oli, our Director of Fundraising, updates on the Big Bases Appeal, community fundraising highlights, CPR advice and news from our new shops in Ashbourne and Ripley.

Read online or download your copy today 👇

09/09/2026

We’re so proud to share that our incredible volunteer, Keith Brown, has been named a finalist in the BBC Radio Northampton Make a Difference Awards, in the Volunteer category! 💛

Keith has supported The Air Ambulance Service and the National Children's Air Ambulance for more than a decade and has helped raise over £100,000 to support our lifesaving missions. His dedication to fundraising across Northamptonshire and the surrounding areas has made a huge difference to the patients, families and crews we support.

Keith and Andrew Partridge, who nominated him, will attend the awards evening tomorrow. Please join us in wishing Keith the very best of luck, we’re all behind you!!
BBC Northamptonshire
A link to read Keith’s full story is in the comments 👇

08/09/2026

“We can’t thank the crew enough for what an awesome job they did. Between us all, we saved Clive’s life.” - Kelly, Clive’s wife. Our Summer Raffle is closing SOON. Enter now for your chance to win £5,000 and help make lifesaving missions like Clive’s possible.

There’s still time, but not for long play before midnight Wednesday on 9th September: ylaa.uk/Raffle

05/08/2026

⚡ Did you know that the Air Ambulance Charity Shop also accepts electrical goods donations?

If you have unwanted electrical items in good working condition, such as kettles, toasters, lamps, radios, televisions, games consoles, or small household appliances, consider donating them to us instead of throwing them away.

Your donations help raise vital funds to support the lifesaving work of the air ambulance service while giving quality items a new home.

Please ensure that all items are clean and in working order before donating. Thank you for your continued support. ❤️

05/08/2026

We’re asking for your help to keep our shelves stocked at the Air Ambulance Charity Shop. If you have any unwanted clothes tucked away at home, please consider donating them to us.

Every bag of clothing donated helps raise vital funds to support the life-saving work of the Air Ambulance service. Your unwanted items could make a real difference to someone in need.

Please drop off your clean, good-quality clothes at our shop and help us keep going. Thank you for your continued support and generosity.

Together, we can turn unwanted clothes into life-saving funds. ❤️

18/07/2026

Happy Saturday all 🎉

Some great deals in-store today including retro forest football programmes, Ilkeston town football programmes and more. £1 each or 3 for £2.

Come drop us a visit and say hello to the wonderful team in today, open until 5.

Thank you so much for all of your continued support 🚁

29/05/2026

We’d like to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who came to support us on our opening day here in Ilkeston Town Centre today. 💙

The warm welcome, kind words, donations, and purchases have meant so much to us as a new charity shop joining the community. Your support is already helping us move forward and make a difference.

We’re truly grateful to be part of such a welcoming town and we look forward to meeting many more of you in the days and weeks ahead.

Thank you again for supporting our charity shop — we couldn’t do it without you! 😊

29/05/2026

Pop in and let us know what you think of our new store

The Air Ambulance Service will be opening a new boutique store in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, helping to raise further vital funds.