After a decade of close partnership with Banham’s Foundation, London’s Air Ambulance Charity is proud to extend its partnership with Banham Security for a further three years.

This renewed collaboration solidifies the two organisations’ shared commitment to the life-saving work of the charity and promises to further enhance the vital services provided to the people of London.

The longstanding partnership with Banham Security, which began through their Charitable Foundation in November 2012, has been instrumental in empowering London's Air Ambulance Charity to deliver rapid medical care to those in urgent need. 

The cornerstone of this support is Banham Security's sponsorship of the six rapid response cars operated by the charity. The cars are equipped with the same cutting-edge medical equipment as the helicopters, ensuring that the medics can get across London to the patient in the shortest amount of time possible. As with the teams aboard the aircraft, the cars bring the hospital to the patient, with clinicians treating patients at the roadside and conducting life-saving medical interventions in an out-of-hospital context.   

The long-standing support from Banham  has contributed to providing urgent care to thousands ofmissions across the capital and helped the Charity to access daily critical roadside incidents.

In celebration of the renewed partnership with Banham Security, Banham board members visited London's Air Ambulance Charity's helipad, situated on the 17th floor of the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. The visit provided an opportunity for Banham representatives to meet with the pilots, medics, and charity leadership of London’s Air Ambulance, as well as to see the new fleet of rapid response cars.

Charles Hallatt, Executive Chairman at Banham said:

“Banham are immensely proud to announce our renewed 3-yearpartnership with London’s Air Ambulance Charity. The Charity’s rapid response vehicles are intrinsically linked to the core of our ethos at Banham – protecting people and providing urgent and immediate response when most needed. We are proud to have supported the Charity for over a decade, enabling them to continue to provide critical roadside care throughout the Capital.

We very much look forward to extending our support for another three years and together, we can continue to save lives and make a difference across London.”

Jonathan Jenkins, CEO, London’s Air Ambulance Charity said:

“As a charity focused on fundraising every year, the value of a long-term partnership like this cannot be overstated. Banham have been working with us for over a decade now and I’m delighted to have them on board for another three years.

It can be easy to forget that support like Banham’s has a direct and tangible effect on the work of our teams day-to-day – work that simply wouldn’t be possible without their backing.

I’d like to pass on my sincere thanks to everyone at Banham Security who have helped make this partnership such a success over the years.“

Notes to Editors

For more information about London’s Air Ambulance Charity contact: 

Andy Frain, Media & Public Affairs Manager, London’s Air Ambulance Charity  
Email: a.frain@londonsairambulance.org.uk / 07973 948 519  

For more information about Banham Security contact: 

Nimi Singh, Managing Director, B.Spoke Agency 
Email: nimi.singh@b-spokeagency.com /+447907744572 

About Banham Security

Founded in 1926, Banham are the largest provider of security systems to properties in London and the South East of England. They proudly remain a family business, now in its fourth generation of Banham family, and are privately owned. 
www.banham.co.uk

About London’s Air Ambulance Charity

• We are the only helicopter emergency medical service caring for the 10 million people that live, work and travel in London every day
• Only our medics can carry out open chest surgery, give blood transfusions and put patients into an induced coma at the scene, in London
• 1977 patients were treated in 2022 (calendar year)  
• London’s Air Ambulance was founded in 1989 and to date has treated over 45,000 critically injured people and attended most major incidents in London including 7/7, the Grenfell Tower fire and London Bridge terror incident 
• Our average flight time is 7.5 minutes
• The helicopter can fly anywhere in London (inside the M25) within 11 minutes 
• Critical injury from road traffic incidents, falls from height, assaults and other injuries are the biggest killer of people aged under 40.   
• London’s Air Ambulance is a charity that operates in partnership with both Barts Health NHS Trust and the London Ambulance Service:
• Barts Health NHS Trust employs and pays the doctors as well as providing some direct financial support and the helipad facility for the charity’s operations which is based at The Royal London Hospital.
• London Ambulance Service provide paid paramedics who are seconded to the service.  An advanced trauma paramedic operates from the Service’s control room and is responsible for dispatching London’s Air Ambulance to the most critically injured people in London, 24 hours a day.