Beeline: Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Magazine, Spring 2016

what we do
Facts
The number of people who follow us on Facebook now
More facts and statistics are available on
exceeds 13,400. Please like and share our page and encourage
our website: www.dsairambulance.org.uk
others to follow us too! Simply search for Dorset and Somerset Air
Ambulance and click ‘like’.
facebook
National Air Ambulance
Week takes place
between Monday 19-Sunday
25 September this year.
Find out how you can get
involved on page 47.
Help us increase
our Twitter
following of 3,112. Visit
@dsairambulance and
don’t forget to tag us if
you see our team.
Our Flight for Life
Lottery costs £1 a
week to join and includes
a Jackpot of £1,000.
Join today by completing
the direct debit form
on page 28.
saturday
In the period
July-December
2015, our busiest
day of the week was
a Saturday. Seventy
missions were flown
during August,
making this the
busiest month over
this six-month period.
Since our
formation, we
have now flown more
than 11,000 missions.
Every mission we
fly is the result of
somebody suffering
a potentially
life-threatening
injury or accident
and it is not a number
we celebrate.
During the period July-December 2015 we flew a total of
313 missions, of which 147 took place in Dorset and 146 in
Somerset. The outstanding number took place on the border
of our neighbouring counties.
207
There were 207 supporter-led events held in aid of
the Charity between June and December 2015. This
is 34 more than the same period the previous year.
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