MIDLANDS AIR AMBULANCE CHARITY
Registered charity 1143118 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HEART OF ENGLAND AIR AMBULANCE CHARITY
Midlands Air Ambulance Charity (registered charity number 1143118), formerly known as County Air Ambulance (1001064). The charity's mission is to provide patients with pre-hospital care and lifesaving intervention through its helicopter-led emergency medical services (HEMS).The charity covers Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, the West Midlands and Worcestershire.
Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity ended the year in a strong financial position with total unrestricted funds of £35,367,000, which equates to approximately twenty months of future operating expenditure. The charity generated a net income of £1,577,000 for the year, supported by diverse income streams including donations, legacies, and trading activities, while maintaining an 'Outstanding' CQC rating and robust risk management frameworks.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Fundraising cost ratio: 11.8% of fundraised income, as disclosed
“Our aim is to keep our administration and finance costs at less than 12 per cent of the income received, and we are pleased to be able to record that for this financial year we spent 11.8 per cent of our income on support and governance costs.” — page 20
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: up to twenty-four months of future operating costs (held: £35.4m)
“The reserves policy states that the level of unrestricted funds that is set aside to cover future expenditure if there is a fall in income should be up to twenty-four months of future operating costs.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Midlands Air Ambulance Charity (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Sir David Nicholson KCB CBE — Patron (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.
Company officers (Companies House)
Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.
- MORRIS, Ann Marie, Dr — director, appointed 01/06/2026not on trustee list
- NICHOLLS, Neil Douglas — director, appointed 04/11/2025on trustee list
- PIEDADE, Antonio De Jesus Nogueira — director, appointed 20/05/2025on trustee list
- MANNING, Carly Louise — director, appointed 11/10/2024on trustee list
- MOSS, Andrew — director, appointed 22/02/2023on trustee list
- MARRIOTT, Edwin Keith — director, appointed 30/01/2020on trustee list
- DELLENTY, Gareth Christopher — director, appointed 30/01/2020on trustee list
- DOUGLAS, Robert Granville — director, appointed 12/11/2019on trustee list
- BAILEY, Kate-Emma — director, appointed 08/07/2019on trustee list
- SALEEM, Mohammed Waheed — director, appointed 05/10/2018on trustee list
- REES, Nicola — secretary, appointed 01/03/2021
Official officers record.
Property (HM Land Registry)
7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
CQC provider record: Midlands Air Ambulance Charity — Registered, 4 registered locations, 4 regulated activities, last inspected 25/01/2024.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£4.8m
Reserves (reported)
£13.5m
Reported reserves equal ~8.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 23.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).
Care Quality Commission ratings
CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).
- Midlands Air Ambulance Charity - Strensham Airbase: Outstanding (25/04/2024) · CQC record
- Midlands Air Ambulance Charity - Headquarters and Airbase: Outstanding (11/01/2024) · CQC record
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (14/04/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (24/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (24/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (13/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (07/04/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (09/07/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Andrew Moss
- Antonio De Jesus Nogueira Piedade
- Carly Manning
- Dr Ann-Marie Cooper
- Edwin Keith Marriott · trustee of 1 other charity
- Gareth Dellenty
- Kate-Emma Bailey
- Mohammed Waheed Saleem · trustee of 1 other charity
- Neil Douglas Nicholls
- Robert Granville Douglas
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Birmingham City · Gloucestershire · Herefordshire · Shropshire · Solihull · Staffordshire · Walsall · Warwickshire · Worcestershire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is MIDLANDS AIR AMBULANCE CHARITY financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the year in a strong financial position with total unrestricted funds of £35,367,000, which equates to approximately twenty months of future operating expenditure. The charity generated a net income of £1,577,000 for the year, supported by diverse income streams including donations, legacies, and trading activities, while maintaining an 'Outstanding' CQC rating and robust risk management frameworks. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited.
Who funds MIDLANDS AIR AMBULANCE CHARITY?
Funders whose own accounts filings name MIDLANDS AIR AMBULANCE CHARITY as a grant recipient include DENISE COATES FOUNDATION, COUNTY AIR AMBULANCE TRUST, THE GORDON GRAY TRUST, EDITH MURPHY FOUNDATION, THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED.
Known funders
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Government & lottery funding
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