NEEDES - Fundraising

Fundraising

The day to day running of the NEEDES charity are not significant. However to replace maintain the life saving equipment and maintain a high standard of training it costs about £5000 - £10000 a year to keep each of the five NEEDES doctors on the road and saving lives.

A number of the costs are met by the individual Doctors who work for NEEDES including additional fuel and vehicle maintenance costs, stationary and daily administration costs.

NEEDES receives NO Government or Ambulance service funding, all costs are met by charitable donations or by the individual doctors themselves.

What is the money used for?

Equipment

equipment

NEEDS doctors carry a wide range of life saving and safety equipment

Training

NEEDES doctors must have and maintain experience in a wide variety of Emergency and Life saving skills. They must therefore regularly attend a number of specialist courses. Each of these can cost between £300 and £650 and are often required to be repeated every three years. These include:

Advance Life Support (ALS)

Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)

Pre Hospital Emergency Care Certificate (PHEC)

Major Incident Medical Management and Support (MIMMS)

Pre Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS)

Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS)

Advance driving course

NEEDES doctors also undertake a number of postgraduate specialist medical training and examinations including Fellowships of the Royal Colleges of General Practice, Surgeons and Anaesthetists. In addition diplomas in fellowships in immediate care (Pre Hospital care) are undertaken.

Making a donation

Registered Charity no. 266548

Individual donations & leaving a legacy

If you would like to make a donation or leave a legacy or like to please email us at donations@needes.org