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Midlands Air Ambulance Charity
Over our 32-year history, our charity has been driven by a commitment to continuously improve advanced pre-hospital patient care across the Midlands.
Our new airbase and charity headquarters is a vital development to support patient care across the whole of the region. The new facility is located in a strategic position on the Shropshire / Staffordshire border with close proximity to the West Midlands. It features improved office space and meeting rooms, welcoming visitor areas, and state-of-the-art clinical training facilities which are fundamental to delivering the advanced training programmes required for our clinicians.
A feasibility study into the possibility of building a combined airbase and charity headquarters was undertaken four years ago, when the charity acknowledged a number of challenges our essential serviced faced. These included:
To help future-proof the service and address these challenges head on, we have developed a purpose-built airbase and charity headquarters, which will benefit patients across the whole of the Midlands.
The new facility, located in a strategic position on the Shropshire / Staffordshire border with close proximity to the West Midlands, features clinical training facilities, which are fundamental to delivering the advanced training programmes required for our clinicians. This will ensure our critical care team are equipped to treat the increasingly complex patient cases and will enhance our daily lifesaving service.
Find out more about the new facility plans and benefits here.
Latest image from the airbase and charity headquarters, taken June 2023.
Initial ground works started on the Neachley site 3rd March 2021, with the project being completed at the end of June 2023. We started to move into the new facility early July 2023.
This project has been carefully considered for over four years and is part of our commitment to continuously improve advanced pre-hospital patient care across the Midlands and is a vital development for the whole of the region.
To ensure the service is future-proofed for decades to come and address the challenges as previously mentioned, we believe that the development of a purpose-built airbase and charity headquarters, complete with clinical training simulation suite, ensures the Midlands growing population of six million plus has appropriate helicopter-led emergency care provision.
The new facilities includes space for our daily operations, including two helipads for aircraft if needed and space for our rapid response vehicles and critical care cars. In addition, a training and simulation centre, research and development facilities, the main charity offices, and warehousing for charity vehicles and storage have been created. In due course, there will also be space to host fundraising events, and meeting rooms for the local community.
This development will futureproof our vitally important organisation as we will have a purpose-built facility to fit the specific needs of our essential emergency service.
This new facility will help future-proof the delivery of our pre-hospital critical care for the Midlands region. The benefits of the new building are:
We are extremely proud to have developed our new facility in the Shropshire / Staffordshire area, and thank the public, local businesses, parish councils and individual Members of Parliament for their support of the project.
Our new airbase and charity headquarters is a vital development for advanced pre-hospital patient care across the whole of the region.
It means the critical care paramedics and pre-hospital emergency medicine doctors are equipped to treat the increasingly complex patient cases and will enhance our daily lifesaving service.
If you have any further questions, or would like to support the project personally, or through your business or grant giving organisation, please click the contact us button below.
Images courtesy of Nigel Harniman Photography
Our supporters have had the opportunity to help in a number of ways with the build by being involved in one our programmes.
Becoming a Founding Partner for Midlands Air Ambulance Charity’s airbase & headquarters is a prestigious and timely opportunity to be part of the next major step in our service’s commitment to clinical excellence.
There is also the Flight Club, this opportunity is ideal for companies wanting to assist in this momentous milestone in our service’s future.
To date, those who have contributed towards our new airbase and charity headquarters include:
County Air Ambulance Trust HELP Appeal
The Department of Health & Social Care
Denise Coates Foundation
The Kildare Trust
Ibstock Brick
The Rowlands Trust
Henry Surtees Foundation
The Walker Trust
The Batchworth Trust
Wynn Foundation
Baylis & Harding
Aico
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