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During the last full financial year: 

• £3,055,867.00 was the cost of service provision /charitable activities these charges include Helicopter lease, Maintenance, Fuel, Landing fees, Hanger facilities, Medical insurances, Equipment, Drugs, Consumables, Airport accommodation, IT requirements, Training and Paramedic and Doctor salaries.
• £2,860,606.00 of those cost were provided for by public donation.
• 74% of the charity’s gross income for the year £4,140,532.00 went directly on service provision /charitable activities.

• An estimated 80,000 hours of staff and volunteer time was required to operate, administrate, fundraise, train, and provide public presentations. Interestingly as a ratio it works out that for every 1 hour of flying time it took 95 hours of ground time to run the whole show, exhausting but never the less essential or as we say “when the weight of the paperwork exceeds the weight of the helicopters we can then go flying”.

• During the year the senior management team volunteered a considerable amount of time and expertise to inform and develop a National air ambulance framework document, National clinical advisory group and National clinical procedures, concurrently a Northern Trauma Network was instigated by our senior clinicians and our exclusive degree level Helicopter Crew Course re-accredited with the University of Teesside all of which helps to maintain and improve our performance and benefit the wider clinical network.