Midlands Air Ambulance Charity moves into new airbase and HQ
The clinicians and staff of Midlands Air Ambulance Charity recently moved to a new airbase and headquarters facility in Shropshire.
Constructed by Morris Property Group, the facility is designed to future-proof the charity’s pre-hospital emergency service and includes the charity’s head office, airbase, clinical operations, and community education zone.
The headquarters also features a cutting-edge training simulation suite, supported by The Kildare Trust, allowing critical care clinicians to practice specialised skills in a realistic environment.
Using virtual reality and real-world content, the interactive room simulates various situations relevant to the pre-hospital setting.
Furthermore, the airbase and headquarters incorporate energy-efficient elements like solar panels and air source heat pumps.
The new development received initial funding from organisations such as the County Air Ambulance Trust HELP Appeal, the Denise Coates Foundation, and The Kildare Trust.
The charity also ran specific fundraising campaigns to secure funding for different parts of the airbase, with contributions from Aico, Baylis & Harding, Ibstock Brick, and M6toll.
Hanna Sebright, chief executive for Midlands Air Ambulance Charity, said: “Our new airbase and headquarters is a significant milestone in our charity’s 32-year history and is critical to us achieving our mission to provide patients of the Midlands with outstanding pre-hospital care and lifesaving intervention today and into the future.
“We are delighted that our clinicians and non-clinical staff are now able to work out of the same building, as one team, in this wonderful new facility and look forward to welcoming members of the public to visit us in the near future.”
Glyn O’Hara, senior contracts manager for Morris Property, said: “It’s been a privilege to work on this pioneering new airbase and headquarters. Projects like this are incredibly rare and our team is very proud of the part it has played in its construction. We are looking forward to seeing the charity move in, which will take it from being a first-class building to a vital new lifesaving facility for our region.”
