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Purpose-built airbase planned


New home: Midlands Air Ambulance


Midlands Air Ambulance Charity is a step closer to developing a purpose-built airbase and charity headquarters in the Shropshire area. The plans have been approved by Shropshire


Council and the project is now awaiting final sign off from the charity’s board of trustees. The charity says it continues to face a number


of challenges, including the annual rising demand for advanced patient care on scene, the increased complexity of patient needs requiring specialist skills and medicines, and the fact there are insufficient training facilities for the critical care paramedics and doctors. In order to face these challenges head on and ensure the service is future-proofed for decades to come, Midlands Air Ambulance aims to develop a purpose-built airbase and charity headquarters, complete with clinical training simulation suite.


Competition gives women and girls a voice


South Asian arts agency Sampad has launched a specially commissioned, international writing competition for women and girls from Birmingham, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The competition – ‘My city, my home’ - is


aimed at emerging female writers from all three locations. An independent panel of judges will judge


the entries, and the winners will see their work published online and in a book. The competition has received more than


270 poems or short stories from women and girls aged 16 about the phrase ‘My city, my home’. Sampad director Piali Ray said: “We want


to give women and girls the chance to tell their story. We need to hear it from them.”


44 CHAMBERLINK March 2021 Hanna Sebright, chief executive of the charity,


said: “Over our 30-year history, our charity has been driven by a commitment to continuously improve advanced pre-hospital patient care across the Midlands. “We consider our new airbase and charity headquarters to be a vital development for the whole of the region. “The new facility, located in Cosford,


Shropshire, will feature clinical training facilities, which are fundamental to delivering the advanced training programmes required for our clinicians. This will ensure the critical care team are equipped to treat the increasingly complex patient cases and will enhance our daily lifesaving service.” A report by planning officer, Richard Fortune at Shropshire Council, says: “There is substantial


public benefit from the provision of this service and the case presented amounts to very special circumstances sufficient to justify this proposal.” Subject to approval from its trustees, the


organisation intends to start work shortly and the facility is expected to be completed late 2022. The new facility will complement the charity’s existing air ambulance-led service across the six Midlands counties. Initial funding for the new development has


come from grants from organisations such as the Department for Health and Social Care and the Help Appeal. In addition, the charity will use a proportion of


its reserves and undertake specific fundraising campaigns for areas of the new airbase, including the clinical simulation training suite, memory garden and community education zone.


Word360 strengthens team


Translation and multilingual communication agency Word360 has made key appointments to strengthen its management team. The management team has been bolstered


with the addition of a commercial manager, marketing manager, operations manager, and head of development. Andrew Malone joins Word360 as operations manager, after leaving the same position at IKEA. He comes from a background in retail and health and safety management and will be tasked with maintaining the firm’s strong reputation for customer excellence, compliance and governance. James Nunnerley, who has moved from IT


Director at global giant, IMI Mobile and was the lead developer at Text Local, has been appointed as head of development. New commercial manager Sheena Kotecha is an award-winning


corporate manager, who brings a decade of high-level sales management. She is a veteran of the medical and healthcare


industry having worked in the Middle East for several years. Finally, Ioana Gaicea joins Word360 as the


new marketing manager, bringing with her a first-class degree in marketing as well as more than four years of experience in analysing market and consumer trends in the fitness, software, technology and IT industries. Chief executive Tiku Chauhan said: “These


appointments have brought fantastic skills into our business. “We have seen huge interest in our new


remote interpreting services as meetings move online and more AI-driven translation solutions as businesses look for international growth post-Brexit.”


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