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Donating to Air Ambulance |
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Buying the MCC UK Card could potentially save your life. It could also save other lives. If your Motorcycle Club buys 10 or more cards in one transaction, we will donate £2 of every card to Air Ambulance. Here are a few facts you may not have known about Air Ambulance: - 30 helicopters are leased or owned and in service for the 18 Air Ambulance Charities plus 2 that are operated by the Scottish Ambulance Service.
- On average, an Emergency Air Ambulance takes off every 10 minutes in the UK.
- Collectively the Air Ambulances are the busiest voluntary emergency services in the UK.
- Air Ambulances work with 60 pilots and medical teams encompassing: Consultants, Specialist Registrars, GPs, Emergency Care Practitioners, Paramedics, Technicians and Nurses.
- Air Ambulances collectively undertake over 19,000 missions in a year and serve 177 accident and emergency departments.
- On average a mission costs £1,229.
- Air Ambulances use nearly 2.5M Litres of fuel in a year (130 litres per mission).
- The average spend per helicopter is £843,000 per annum.
Sometimes, Air Ambulance are the only people who can get to you. MCC UK allows you to give something back.
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