Yorkshire Air Ambulance

Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) is an independent charity providing a life-saving rapid response emergency service to 5 million people across the whole of Yorkshire. Operational seven days a week, 365 days a year, the Charity currently attends over 1,300 missions a year, with an average of 4 incidents every single day. YAA currently operates two helicopters one based at Nostell Air Support Unit, near Wakefield, with the second based at RAF Topcliffe, near Thirsk. To keep both of Yorkshires Air Ambulances maintained and in the air, YAA needs to raise 19,000 every single day. The generosity we receive really is the lifeblood of the Charity. The charity was set up in 2000 and with the addition of the second air ambulance in October 2007, the YAA now operate our own Dedicated Air Desk for rapid dispatch of their helicopters to an incident. The swift medical interventions provided by their air ambulance crews have a major impact on a patients chance of survival and subsequent qualit...