Annual Report and Financial Statements 2024-25

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance completed 2,616 missions in 2024-25, a 10% increase year-on-year, with 1,437 by helicopter and 1,179 by critical care vehicle. The charity launched the £3.6m Operation Airbase appeal to relocate from Thruxton to Southampton Airport, raising £2m by year end. CPR training reached 2,000+ community members. Total income was £13.89m with expenditure of £11.84m.

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📋About

Helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) 24/7; emergency response vehicles; Aftercare support; CPR Skills for Life community training (2,000+ people trained); major incident training; Operation Airbase appeal (£3.6m) to relocate to Southampton Airport; partnership with University Hospital Southampton and South Central Ambulance Service Custom geography from upload: South East England

📊Key Metrics

2,616 total missions — a 10% increase on the previous year — across Hampshire and Isle of Wight Key Metric 1
1,437 helicopter deployments and 1,179 critical care vehicle deployments Key Metric 2
£13.89 million total income with £11.84 million expenditure for year ending 30 September 2025 Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • Operation Airbase appeal raised £2 million from 9,973 individual donors by September 2025 towards new state-of-the-art base near Southampton Airport
  • CPR Skills for Life programme delivered to more than 2,000 people since its September 2024 launch
  • 251 volunteers supporting the charity alongside 30,205 regular lottery givers and 3,138 event participants

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2025 Enhanced

Our Impact 2024-25

3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
Key Metric 1
1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
Key Metric 2
997 volunteers donated 26,824 hours of support; befriending service awarded Quality in Befriending Excellence — one of only 11 organisations in the UK to achieve this
Key Metric 3
1,831 National Creative Wellbeing Project packs issued to help veterans reconnect with creativity and independence
2024 Enhanced

Annual Report and Accounts 2024

349,000+ people completed the Know Your Risk tool to assess their risk of type 2 diabetes in 2024
Key Metric 1
£4 million invested in 17 new research projects; total active grants portfolio worth over £45 million
Key Metric 2
32% of people completing NHS England's Path to Remission programme — which Diabetes UK campaigned for — put their type 2 diabetes into remission
Key Metric 3
Type 1 Diabetes Grand Challenge invested over £23 million in 19 projects across 161 experts from 47 institutions in 8 countries since 2022
2024 Enhanced

Impact Report 2024

Work with over 650 schools reaching over 350,000 children and young people
Key Metric 1
78% of children aged 5-11 and 91% of children aged 11-18 showed improved mental health after one-to-one counselling
Key Metric 2
40,000+ pupils accessed Place2Talk self-referral service — the highest since 2020
Key Metric 3
9,355 participants completed the Mental Health Champions Foundation programme; nearly 90,000 people have taken part since launch