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National Children's Air Ambulance Welcome to your local Air Ambulance Headington retail store where your buys help save lives. Shop, donate or volunteer to help keep us flying.

Children’s Air Ambulance is an inter-hospital transfer service flying babies and children from one hospital to another for specialist care. We work with 10 NHS paediatric and neonatal retrieval teams across the UK, enabling them to bring their specialist equipment on board to safely transfer their patients from one hospital to another. With our ability to fly approximately four times faster than a land ambulance, we can minimise travel times and the risk for little patients. For more information visit childrensairambulance.org.uk

A new shop with a lifesaving soundtrack! 🎶🚁Say hello to Second Spin Records, our new independent music boutique in Archw...
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.

September was a busy month for the National Children's Air Ambulance 🚁Across the month, our amazing crews and Airdesk te...
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.

We hope you’ll never need us. But if you do, we’ll be ready.The National Children's Air Ambulance flies critically ill b...
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 💚

Throwback Thursday 🚁📸We’re taking a look back at these fantastic photos of our G-NICU aircraft, captured by one of our s...
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!

Two incubator transfers in one day 🚁Recently, our G-NICU crew and Airdesk team worked with Clinical Partner Team SONeT t...
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.

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

Last week, our G-CPTZ crew and Airdesk team worked with Clinical Partner Team SoNAR to complete an incubator transfer to...
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 💚

Two missions. One day 🚁Recently, our teams completed two important transfers with Clinical Partner Teams SoNAR and Embra...
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.

Spotlighting the amazing people behind our missions: Tom Finney 💚🚁Tom has been part of the National Children's Air Ambul...
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! 🎺🎶

A family holiday took an unexpected turn when 19-month-old Penny became seriously unwell.While visiting Whitby, Penny wa...
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.

Verity’s story: a flight to surgery, and back to dancing 💚Verity Nuttall from Congleton has loved performing for as long...
25/06/2026

Verity’s story: a flight to surgery, and back to dancing 💚

Verity Nuttall from Congleton has loved performing for as long as she can remember — but last September, after becoming seriously unwell, she needed urgent specialist heart surgery and a transfer that would change everything.

Living with Dilated Cardiomyopathy since she was a baby, Verity’s condition worsened during a family holiday, and when doctors at Alder Hey realised she needed specialist surgery in Newcastle, our National Children's Air Ambulance stepped in with our Clinical Partner Team NWTS.

The helicopter flight took just 48 minutes, saving 4 hours and 49 minutes by road. For Verity and her mum Katie, that meant a calmer, safer journey to the care she needed.

Today, Verity is back doing what she loves most: dancing, performing and enjoying being a young girl again. Read the full story here: https://ncaa.uk/verity 🚁

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108/110 London Road
Oxford
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Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 10am - 4pm

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+441865764076

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