# Air ambulance in N Ireland reports first full year income

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/09/24/air-ambulance-in-n-ireland-reports-first-full-year-income/
- Published: 2018-09-24T09:59:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Air Ambulance Northern Ireland (AANI) raised £300,000 in its first full year
of operation, according to its accounts for 2017.**

AANI, in partnership with the NI Ambulance Service, provides the emergency helicopter
service for Northern Ireland. The charity’s helicopter carries a crew comprising
a pilot, doctor and paramedic and operates every day of the year.

AANI say it costs £5000 a day or £2 million a year to run. The charity says that
it will continue to develop its main source of fundraising activity, community fundraising,
pending the development of a full fundraising strategy. 

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AANI also intends to engage more with corporate sources, high net worth individuals
and developing a legacy strategy. Income generation through a social enterprise 
which sells AANI merchandise will also be expanded.

To help promote the charity, [AANI](http://www.airambulanceni.org) says it will 
engage a communications and marketing partner.

The accounts show a total income of £920,000 which includes funding of £619,000 
from the Treasury. This money came from LIBOR fines levied on banks.

The trustees of AANI say their longer term goal is to build up a reserve of £2 million,
equivalent to one year’s running costs.

Last year [Kerry  Anderson joined the organisation as head of fundraising](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/09/18/air-ambulance-ni-makes-first-fundraising-appointment/).
Kerry previously worked for Co-operation Ireland, Childline, Action Cancer and Cheat
Heart and Stroke.