22 JUNE 2021: RUN A MARATHON FOR KSS

Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) is seeking supporters to help the life-saving charity raise vital funds by taking part in some of the UK’s most iconic fundraising events.   The charity – which each year must raise £15M to deliver its world-class pre-hospital emergency care 24/7 to the 4.8 million people who live in…

26 JANUARY 2021: WEST HORSLEY PLACE TRUST PARTNERS WITH SURREY WILDLIFE TRUST

The West Horsley Place Trust – the charity established to save Grade I listed West Horsley Place and its surrounding estate so that they can be enjoyed by the public – today announces an important National Lottery Heritage funded collaboration with Surrey Wildlife Trust (SWT) to enrich biodiversity across the 380-acre estate. Once Covid-19 restrictions…

25 JANUARY 2021: STRATFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL LAUNCHES AUTHORS FOR SCHOOLS

Leading and award-winning UK authors, including Michael Rosen, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Tanya Landman and Sita Brahmachari, are amongst those who have recorded events for the Stratford Literary Festival in a project called Authors for Schools designed to inspire children being home-schooled during lockdown. The Authors for Schools Project, made possible by donations to a match-funded initiative…

7 JANUARY 2021: RESEARCH BY KSS AND UNIVERSITY OF SURREY

RESEARCH SHOWS A SIGNIFICANT PROPORTION OF PATIENTS WITH SUDDEN LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS NEED PRE-HOSPITAL CRITICAL CARE • 56% of patients with sudden loss of consciousness (LOC) attended by Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) underwent an emergency pre-hospital anaesthetic • HEMS dispatchers, in collaboration with ambulance personnel, are able to identify patients with potentially life-threatening LOC…

8 SEPTEMBER 2020: AIR AMBULANCE KENT SURREY SUSSEX WINS NATIONAL CHARITY OF THE YEAR AWARD

Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) is celebrating major success, having won a prestigious Charity Times award which was open to national and regional charities and not-for-profit organisations from across the UK. The life-saving charity has been crowned Charity of the Year (income over £10 million) in recognition of consistently delivering an outstanding and pioneering…

AGE UK

CAMPAIGNING AGE UK Objective: To create a news hook, Wigwam helped to draft and commission new research into the level of scamming in the UK (5,000 respondents). We analysed the data and developed top line findings and regional statistics. We also recruited media-friendly case studies to highlight the range of scams to which some of…