Our Charities

Headway Lincolnshire is the local branch of the UK national Charity, Headway - the brain injury association. It aims to provide information and understanding for people with brain injury and their families and carers, increase public awareness and knowledge of head injury, campaign for better health and social care for the head injured and their carers and participate in activities that will reduce the incidence of head injury.

Headway Lincolnshire runs a social group for people with a brain injury, their family and carers on the first Wednesday in the month from 10am - 12noon at The Five Bells in Butterwick, near Boston. For further information please contact Barbara Hallam on 07546592526

Headway Lincolnshire (in association with Adult Social Care) runs a support group in Lincoln for people with a brain injury their family and carers. This takes place on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month from 10am - 1pm at The Healthy Hub, Beaumont Fee, Lincoln, LN1 1UW.

Latest Figures:
Since the beginning of 2007 LIVES members have attended over 8060 calls, 129 of which were cardiac arrests with 17 of those surviving. Currently 82% of LIVES calls are achieving the national target (to reach a patient within 8 minutes) and our average response time is 3.2 minutes. This means that in towns and villages where there is a First Responder group, the chance of survival following Cardiac Arrest has increased to 25%.

The Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance is a dedicated medical air service which first began operations in Lincolnshire in April 1994.

Based at RAF Waddington, south of Lincoln, and unaffected by road congestion, country roads, heavy vehicles or road works the Helicopter can reach any destination in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire in 19 minutes.

LIVES Activity
LIVES Responders are trained to deliver early Basic Life Support and early Defibrillation. In addition, they provide patient assessment, oxygen therapy and general patient care.

Why is a rapid response by LIVES Responders so important?
Following a Cardiac Arrest, the chance of survival decreases by over 10% for every minute of delay until help arrives. After 8 minutes (which is the government response target for ambulance trusts), survival is less than 5%. Our responders are located within communities to increase the chance of attending a patient within that 8 minute window, increasing the chance of providing life saving treatment.

In the UK there are eighteen dedicated Air Ambulance operations and all are reliant upon charitable support. An Air Ambulance provides an important and sometimes vital additional patient care service for our most critically ill and injured patients.