Hello and thank you for taking the time reading a little bit about me and the wonderful charity.

Please allow me to introduce myself, my name is Kay Starkey and I am very fortunate to be the Community Fundraising Executive for the West Midlands for the amazing Midlands Air Ambulance Charity.

Midlands Air Ambulance Charity (MAAC) operates and funds three air ambulances covering six Midlands counties including Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire and the West Midlands.

Each year it costs in excess of £13 million to maintain the three aircraft and the provision of a lifesaving service. Each air ambulance mission costs an average of £2,950. Each critical care car or cardiac car mission costs £288 on average. The charity does not receive funding from the Government or National Lottery for its daily missions so relies entirely on the support and generosity of local people and businesses. Since 1991, we have responded to more than 73,000 missions, making us one of the busiest air ambulance services in the UK.

We operate from strategically located regional airbases at Cosford in Shropshire, Strensham in Worcestershire and Tatenhill in Staffordshire. Each aircraft carries a crew comprising a pilot, two paramedics or a paramedic and flight doctor, plus full life-support medical equipment. Three rapid response vehicles are deployed when the helicopters are unable to fly, due to bad weather for example. In addition, the charity has two critical care cars - one covers Birmingham and the Black Country area, which operates between 7am until 7pm daily by a critical care paramedic. The second critical care car is based out of the Strensham airbase, and covers incidents across Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire between 2pm and 2am daily. As this car attends incidents into the night, it is manned by two critical care paramedics.

Please do feel free to contact me at any time if this is something you are interested in and I’d love to make the magic happen.

Best Wishes

Kay