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National Children's Air Ambulance Welcome to your local Air Ambulance Princes Risborough retail store where your buys help save lives. For more information visit childrensairambulance.org.uk

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.

A specialist incubator transfer, completed in just 26 minutes 🚁Recently, our G-CPTZ crew and Airdesk team worked with Cl...
22/10/2026

A specialist incubator transfer, completed in just 26 minutes 🚁

Recently, our G-CPTZ crew and Airdesk team worked with Clinical Partner Team Embrace to transfer a patient and their parent to York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The same journey would have taken an estimated 1 hour 44 minutes by road. By flying, the team helped the family reach specialist care much sooner.

A link to learn more about our charity is below.

Photo credit: Spotter Steve

A volunteering story with a very special ending 💚When Matthew and Robyn joined our National Children's Air Ambulance Don...
21/10/2026

A volunteering story with a very special ending 💚

When Matthew and Robyn joined our National Children's Air Ambulance Doncaster Superstore as volunteers in 2022, they were both initially quiet and nervous about stepping into a new environment. Over time, they found confidence, friendship and a real sense of belonging as part of the shop team.

As they got to know one another, a friendship grew into something more — and recently, we were delighted to hear that they got engaged! 💍

Matthew and Robyn’s story is a lovely reminder that volunteering can be about so much more than giving your time. It can create connections, build confidence and bring people together in unexpected ways.

Congratulations to you both from everyone at the National Children's Air Ambulance. We’re so pleased that you found each other, and we wish you every happiness for the future 💚

20/10/2026

Two G-CPTZ missions. One day 🚁

Recently, our crew and Airdesk team completed two transfers alongside Clinical Partner Teams NWTS and KIDS.

First, working with NWTS, the team transferred a patient to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in just 30 minutes, compared with an estimated 1 hour 21 minutes by road.

Later that day, alongside KIDS, they transferred a patient and their parent to Great Ormond Street Hospital and Charity in 42 minutes, instead of an estimated 2 hours 48 minutes by road.

Across the two missions, air travel saved just under three hours compared with travelling by road.

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

Up, up and away - Our Christmas raffle is live! 🚁Enter today for your chance to win £5,000 and help the National Childre...
16/10/2026

Up, up and away - Our Christmas raffle is live! 🚁

Enter today for your chance to win £5,000 and help the National Children's Air Ambulance transfer critically ill babies and children to specialist care: ncaa.uk/Raffle

Draw date 18/12. T&Cs apply, you need to be 18 or over to play. Play responsibly.
https://www.gambleaware.org

Two days. Two important journeys 🚁Recently, our G-CPTZ crew and Airdesk team supported two patient transfers, with a par...
15/10/2026

Two days. Two important journeys 🚁

Recently, our G-CPTZ crew and Airdesk team supported two patient transfers, with a parent travelling alongside their child on both flights.

Working with Clinical Partner Team Embrace, the team completed an incubator transfer to Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust in 1 hour 2 minutes.

The following day, alongside Clinical Partner Team NWTS, they transferred a patient and their parent to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in just 55 minutes.

Every mission relies on careful planning, close collaboration and the dedication of our crew, Airdesk team and clinical partners — helping families reach the specialist care they need.

Photo Credit: Lee Gillard (thank you, Lee! 💚)

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’re getting ready to Go Together! From 19–25 October, we’re joining communities across the country for Go Together We...
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!

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.

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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19 High Street
Princes Risborough
HP270AE

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Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

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