Raising Funds for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance

Southampton Science Park is thrilled to announce its support for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance during 2025.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance (HIOWAA) brings highly skilled pre-hospital emergency medicine doctors and specialist paramedics to the most seriously ill and injured patients when time is critical, giving them the best chance of survival and recovery.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance:

• Operates life-saving missions 365 days a year, day and night.
• Took to the skies in July 2007 and has attended more than 20,000 emergencies since.
• Has just one helicopter and one rapid response vehicle to get to incidents county-wide.
• Attended an average of 7 incidents every day in March 2025, including cardiac arrests, road traffic collisions, falls and assaults.
• Is 100% a charity, receiving no statutory funding, so every donation really does save lives, like the people in these patient stories.

Judith Stephens from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance commented, “We are delighted to be working in partnership with Southampton Science Park this year as its charity of choice. We are looking forward to getting involved in the various resident events that the team there run throughout the year and raising awareness of the work that we do. As a charity that is solely reliant on the support of our communities, partnerships like these are vital to the future of the charity.”

Lucinda Lamont, Business Development Director at the Science Park, said, “The decision to support Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance as our charity of the year was unanimous. Across the whole county, we have only one air ambulance and this is provided by this amazing charity. It could cease to operate without community support. We are particularly excited to be working with the charity team in 2025 as they work to raise the funds they need to create a new, operationally optimised base by Southampton Airport, very close to us here at the Science Park. We’ve set up a Just Giving page to encourage everyone to help us fundraise.”

Operation Airbase is the biggest leap forward in the charity’s history. Currently, its critical care team operates from Thruxton airbase and the charity team from Southampton. Bringing the two teams together under one roof, and to the centre of our community will reduce response times to the majority of callouts and save more lives. HIOWAA is fundraising for £3.6 million to rebuild and equip a site in George Curl Way, Southampton airport, to achieve this.