About Us

The Flight for Life Lottery generates funds and keeps your life-saving air ambulance flying. By joining and becoming a lottery member, you stand a chance to win a life changing prize. It means we can continue to raise funds to help keep your life-saving service in the air.

About the Air Ambulance service

The Air Ambulance is built for speed, and designed to reach the scene of an incident quickly as well as reaching remote and inaccessible areas. Clinicians and life-saving support equipment can be rushed to the scene within minutes.
No funding is received from the National Lottery. We rely on the generosity and goodwill of people and businesses, and on fundraising initiatives such as the Flight for Life Lottery.
It costs in the region of £380,000 per month to cover all charitable costs and aircraft operations for both Essex and Herts Air Ambulances.
Increasing traffic, extreme sports, diverse weather … all of these issues and more contribute to one simple fact. The Air Ambulance is an essential emergency service.

Meet the Canvassers

The Flight For Life Lottery Team at Essex and Herts Air Ambulance Trust is calling on all supporters to sign up now and be in with a chance of winning up to £25,000!

Essex and Herts Air Ambulance Tust is sending canvassers to go door to door to promote the Flight for Life Lottery and gain new members. Each week our canvassers will be targeting different areas in both Essex and Herts.

The Charity would like to emphasise that the canvassers will only be asking people to sign up by Direct Debit and will not be asking for cash upfront.

All canvassers will be in Air Ambulance branded clothing and will be carrying I.D. badges. Anyone that gets a visit from a canvasser is reminded to ask for I.D and if still not sure to call the Lottery Team on 0845 2417 688 for clarification.

Week commencing Monday 26th July 2010 the canvassers are targeting the following areas: Maldon, Coggeshall, Hadleigh, Stanford le Hope, Basildon, Earls Colne and Braintree in Essex. Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City, Letchworth, Baldock, Preston, Offley and Ickleford in Hertfordshire.

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A Statement about the Children’s Air Ambulance

We have recently been made aware by supporters and the police that canvassers from the Children’s Air Ambulance have been calling on homes in our area. Whilst we acknowledge that the Children’s Air Ambulance is a registered charity, we wish to draw to the attention of our supporters the following points:

The Children’s Air Ambulance is in no way connected to the Essex and Herts Air Ambulance Trust.
Essex and Herts Air Ambulance Trust employs canvassers to promote the Essex and Herts Air Ambulance Trust Flight for Life Lottery Ltd but they do not ask for cash at the door.
All our canvassers wear Essex Air Ambulance or Herts Air Ambulance branded clothing and carry ID badges.
Our canvassers only ask people to sign up to the Flight for Life Lottery by Direct Debit and do not ask people to part with their cash.

Anyone that gets a visit from a canvasser is reminded to ask for I.D. If you are still not sure please contact the Lottery Team in the first instance on 0845 2417 688 for clarification.