Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey & Sussex
We are Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS), and we fight every day to save lives. We are a team of dedicated, skilled, sector-leading experts with an incredible level of expertise. We are passionate about what we do which drives us to fulfil our purpose of saving lives and ensuring the best possible outcomes for our patients.
Our charity headquarters and forward operating base are located at Rochester Airport, with our aircraft hangered and maintained at Redhill Aerodrome. When the call comes, we can reach any part of Kent, Surrey or Sussex in under 30 minutes. For 18 hours of the day, we operate with two crews. For the remaining six, when it is quieter but there are still people out there who need our critical care, we operate with one crew.
Our highly skilled teams of Specialist Doctors and Critical Care Paramedics effectively bring the emergency room to the scene to deliver life-saving care. Last year alone we attended over 2,500 incidents. We can perform open heart surgery, deliver anaesthetic and insert tubes to enable patients to breathe, and administer life-saving blood transfusions – wherever there is a patient in need.
But as we are an independent charity, we couldn’t save lives without the help of our supporters. It costs over £15M a year to sustain our world-leading, cutting edge, innovative service and amazingly 88% is donated and raised by the people of Kent, Surrey and Sussex.
To us, care is critical. Support our fight to save lives.
Registered Charity No. 1021367
Our Vision
A world of protection and opportunity for children living alone and at risk on the streets.
Railway Children is an international children's charity. We fight for vulnerable children who live alone at risk on the streets, where they suffer abuse and exploitation.
In the UK, society often denies their existence, and in other countries the problem is so prevalent that it has become 'normal'.
They run away or are forced to leave homes where they suffer poverty, violence, abuse and neglect. They find themselves living on the streets because there is nowhere else to go and no one left to turn to. The problems they face on the streets are often even worse than those they endured at home. Every day we fight to change their story.
Railway Children race to reach children as soon as they arrive on the streets and intervene before an abuser can. Our pioneering work enables us to get to street children before the streets get to them.
What if I change my mind?
Simply by completing a donation form, you can choose to support Railway Children, directly from your pay.
For more information
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