In the Past Year

We continued to develop our culture and strategy – The KSS Way – embedding our values and goals into our activity and planning and considering how best to work towards our vision while ensuring service continuity and the continuous development and improvement of our core service.

We remained fully operational throughout the Coronavirus pandemic and extended our service capabilities to transfer critically ill patients between ICUs. In September 2020 we celebrated in the success of winning the Charity Times Charity of the Year Award (income more than £10M). This prestigious award was open to national and regional charities and not-for-profit organisations from across the UK.

We performed 2,645 missions

We treated 1,490 patients

We had the support of 172 Volunteers and 3,850 fundraisers

Our volunteers gave 87 virtual talks to community groups across Kent, Surrey and Sussex

Our trading company (Air Ambulance Promotions Ltd) made a gift aided donation of £7.3M to KSS from lotteries and raffles, paying £377K in prizes to 727 winners

All of this was only possible thanks to the dedication, generosity and kindness of our supporters and volunteers. THANK YOU!

1,799 people gave us a regular gift

We had a record year for income; raising £17.4M of which 86% was from generous supporters and fundraising activity

We raised £2.94M from legacy donations which was the most raised in any year to date

We published six research papers

Support from our community led to donations increasing year-on-year by 99% to £2.4M