National Children's Air Ambulance

14/10/2026

A new shop with a lifesaving soundtrack! 🎶🚁

Say hello to Second Spin Records, our new independent music boutique in Archway, supporting the National Children's Air Ambulance.

With an eclectic selection of vinyl, CDs, instruments and memorabilia, there’s plenty to explore — whether you’re hunting for a favourite album or discovering something new.

Since opening on Monday, the team has received a fantastic welcome, with customers finding hidden gems and local music lovers generously donating items from their own collections. Thank you for making our first week so special 💚

Every purchase helps support specialist transfers for critically ill babies and children.

📍 Find us at 31 Junction Road, Archway, London, N19 5QT.

13/10/2026

September was a busy month for the National Children's Air Ambulance 🚁

Across the month, our amazing crews and Airdesk team completed 17 specialist transfers for critically ill babies and children, working alongside our dedicated Clinical Partner Teams.

September at a glance:

- 17 transfers completed
- 9 transfers with a parent travelling alongside their child
- 6 incubator transfers
- 1 specialist ECMO transfer
- 22 unique hospitals visited
- An estimated 33 hours saved compared with road journeys

Every mission represents a patient, a family and teams working together to help children access specialist care.

A big thank you to everyone who supports our charity. A link to learn more will be below.

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 the Big 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 Green for the National Children’s 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 Green: bigbases.uk/GoGreen

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

11/10/2026

Meeting New People.
Sense of Community.
Companionship.
Learning New Skills.
Gaining Work Experience.
Some of the reasons people support our Charity by Volunteering with Us.
It also helps keep the 🚁 flying

09/10/2026

We hope you’ll never need us. But if you do, we’ll be ready.

The National Children's Air Ambulance flies critically ill babies and children between hospitals across England, Scotland and Wales, so they reach the specialist care they need, fast.

Together, we save more lives 💚

08/10/2026

Throwback Thursday 🚁📸

We’re taking a look back at these fantastic photos of our G-NICU aircraft, captured by one of our supporters in 2023.

Have you ever spotted one of our helicopters and taken a photo? Share your aircraft pictures in the comments, we’d love to see them!

07/10/2026

Two incubator transfers in one day 🚁

Recently, our G-NICU crew and Airdesk team worked with Clinical Partner Team SONeT to transfer a patient to University Hospitals Dorset in just 45 minutes, compared with 2 hours 2 minutes by road.

On the same day, our G-CPTZ crew and Airdesk team worked with Clinical Partner Team Embrace to transfer a patient and their parent to Diana Princess of Wales Hospital in 52 minutes, instead of 2 hours 47 minutes by road.

Together, these journeys saved over 3 hours compared with travelling by road.

A link to donate and help keep us flying is in the comments.

06/10/2026

We’re proud to be featured in an article from Lincolnshire Live, offering a behind-the-scenes look inside our Gamston Airport base 🚁

The article explores how our purpose-built helicopters operate as flying intensive care units, helping critically ill babies and children reach specialist care across the UK.

It also highlights the people behind every mission, from our pilots and crew members to the specialist clinical teams we work with. We’re grateful to Lincolnshire Live for visiting the base and helping share more about our work.

A link to the full article will be in the comments.

05/10/2026

Last week, our G-CPTZ crew and Airdesk team worked with Clinical Partner Team SoNAR to complete an incubator transfer to University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust 🚁

The patient and their parent travelled by air in 1 hour 33 minutes, compared with an estimated 4 hours 16 minutes by road, saving around 2 hours 43 minutes.

We receive no government or National Lottery funding. A link to donate is in the comments 💚

04/10/2026

Meeting New People.
Sense of Community.
Companionship.
Learning New Skills.
Gaining Work Experience.

Some of the reasons people support our Charity by Volunteering with Us.

It also helps keep the 🚁 flying

02/10/2026

Two missions. One day 🚁

Recently, our teams completed two important transfers with Clinical Partner Teams SoNAR and Embrace:

An incubator transfer to University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, completed in 1 hour 53 minutes instead of 4 hours 16 minutes by road.

A transfer to Birmingham Children's Hospital and Charity, completed in 47 minutes instead of 2 hours 8 minutes by road.

Together, these journeys saved an estimated 3 hours 44 minutes compared with travelling by road, helping patients reach specialist care sooner.

A link to learn more about our charity will be below.

01/10/2026

Spotlighting the amazing people behind our missions: Tom Finney 💚🚁

Tom has been part of the National Children's Air Ambulance crew since July 2025, bringing nearly a decade of experience as an IHCD Technician with East Midlands Ambulance Service. Before joining us full-time, he also worked with Great Ormond Street Hospital and Charity's paediatric critical care transport team.

Tom feels privileged to play a part in helping critically ill babies and children reach the specialist care they need across the country.

Away from missions, family time comes first, although you may also find Tom playing the euphonium with his local concert and marching band! 🎺🎶

30/09/2026

A family holiday took an unexpected turn when 19-month-old Penny became seriously unwell.

While visiting Whitby, Penny was admitted to York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with a suspected bowel blockage. Having previously undergone a lifesaving liver transplant, she needed to return to Birmingham Children's Hospital and Charity, where her specialist team could provide the urgent care she needed.

The National Children's Air Ambulance worked with Embrace to transfer Penny and her mum safely to Birmingham in just one hour. By road, the journey would have taken around three hours, without accounting for possible traffic delays 🚁

Penny was met by her specialist medical team and went on to receive the surgery she urgently needed. Thankfully, she has since been recovering well and has celebrated her birthday surrounded by her family.

Read Penny’s full story via the link in the comments.

27/09/2026

25/09/2026

With your support our Store Teams do what they do to keep these flying

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14/09/2026

You Buy We Fly

07/09/2026

Want to Learn New Skills? Meet New People? Make a difference in the Local Community?

Then why not come and see if Volunteering is for You?

04/09/2026

Thankyou for Your Support 🚁