This is our fundraising page for the Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC), where you can chip into the Highbury Vaults pot (or put on your own fundraiser!), and support the work of our local air ambulance charity.

We’re raising money to fund a defibrillator for the pub and need your help to help make this possible. A cardiac arrest can happen to anyone at anytime and with awful survival rates in this country - where fewer than 1 in 10 will surivive - we can help make our community safer. 

With early defibrillation and early CPR we can be essential links in the chain of survival for that person suffering a cardiac arrest; if we have a defib within a 3 minute walk, and people with knowledge of how to save a life, the chance of surviving a cardiac arrrest could be as high as 7 in 10.  

Once we’ve raised enough for our public access defibrillator, we can continue to raise funds towards the ongoing consumables necessary to keep this device rescue ready and any surplus funds will go towards supporting the excellent work of GWAAC.

This extraordinary team of doctors and advanced paramedics respond to the 1% of 999 calls where sending the skill and equipment of a hospital Emergency Department to the patient can save lives. Going to the most serious medical and trauma incidents in Bristol, South Glos, Gloucestershire, North Somerset and B&NES means the team respond to a huge volume of cardiac arrests. In fact, around 25% of their jobs are to this medical emergency.

But they receive no day to day Government funding or National Lottery support.

So let’s dig deep and give what we can to help fund not only our own public access defibrillator but the subsequent care GWAAC can provide those suffering a cardiac arrest and anyone experiencing their worst day.