HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT AIR AMBULANCE

Registered charity 1106234 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5646027 · Wikipedia · also known as HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT AIR AMBULANCE LIMITED, HEART

THE HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT AIR AMBULANCE CHARITY WAS LAUNCHED IN OCTOBER 2005 AND ITS AIM IS TO PROVIDE AIR AMBULANCE SERVICE THROUGHOUT HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT IN RESPONSE TO EMERGENCY CALLS. THE AIR AMBULANCE BECAME OPERATIONAL ON 1ST JULY 2007 AND FLIES SEVEN DAYS PER WEEK, UP TO 19 HOURS A DAY RESPONDING TO ACCIDENTS, TRAUMA AND SEVERE ILLNESS.

Objects

1 OBJECTS3.1 The Charity's objects ("the Objects") are the relief of sickness and injury and the protection of human life for the benefit of the population of and visitors to the counties of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and surrounding areas, by the provision and support of:3.1.1 pre-hospital emergency medicine;3.1.2 clinical operational and training services including the provision of such services to other ambulance operators and connected third parties; 3.1.3 audit research development training and educational services into pre-hospital medical care; and3.1.4 ancillary equipment and support services related to each of 3.1.1 to 3.1.3 above

Area of benefit: COUNTIES OF HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income reached £13.9 million, driven by a successful capital appeal and strong performance across other income streams. The charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £9.3 million, which the trustees confirm represents approximately nine months of operating expenditure, placing it within their stated policy range of three to ten months. The financial position is described as strong, with adequate resources to continue operations for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by S&W Partners Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Richard Corbett — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Rebecca Brackwell-Slade — Chair (source)
• Sherie Williams Ellen — Deputy Chief Executive (source)
• Jennifer Terry — Director of Finance (source)
• Keith Wilson — Director of Income and Engagement (source)
• Chris Hill — Medical Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Supporter Engagement Officer — £33,000 - £36,000 per year · Southampton (Hybrid) · posted 6 days ago apply now (seen 21/10/2026)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~18.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 28.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Benedict Rouse
• Benjamin Thomas Rogers
• David Wakeham
• Dr John Pike
• GRAHAM ALLEN HILL
• Isabel Boyer
• Louisa Smith
• Lucy Harridge
• Lucy Knowles-Vollentine
• Lucy Linington
• MRS GWEN MOULSTER
• Rebecca Brackwell-Slade
• Steven Vear
• Stuart Gray

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Hampshire · Isle Of Wight

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WILTSHIRE AND BATH AIR AMBULANCE CHARITY.

• WILTSHIRE AND BATH AIR AMBULANCE CHARITY income £4.8m
• HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITY income £202k
• YORKSHIRE AIR AMBULANCE LIMITED income £12.3m
• THE DORSET AND SOMERSET AIR AMBULANCE CHARITY income £10.8m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.