Welcome to Wings2fly.

Wings2fly is a local non-profit organisation aiming to become a leading charity in end of life care for children. A unique ambulance service designed and staffed by Paramedics, doctors and nurses from our NHS services, volunteering in their spare time, to take care of transport and final wishes of children suffering with a life limiting illness and nearing the end if their lives.

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*COVID-19 update* We appreciate times are tough during this current climate and that’s why we have recognised the need to keep pushing ahead with our campaign. As difficult as it has been, for those who have been suffering with a life limiting/terminal illness, it has been a lot tougher. Unable to spend precious time with their loved ones due to being clinically, extremely vulnerable, has meant precious time spent with loved ones has diminished. Please continue to support us, every little contribution goes along way to helping us reach our goal, Thank you.
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We are in the process of establishing a wonderful charity and we are looking for your help.

Wings2fly is a unique ambulance service designed to make the last wishes of terminally ill patients become a reality. We will offer bespoke vehicles, staffed by a clinician and a driver to deliver a comfortable, friendly and relaxing experience.

The vision and hope of all connected with the WJBF is to be able to make a difference. And we believe Wings2fly will do exactly that. We want to fulfil the final wishes of palliative patients and create lasting memories for those family and friends who are with their loved ones every step of the way, every day. Attending a family gathering, a wedding, a visit to the beach or maybe just a ride home to spend some quality 'normal' time together. Wings2fly will provide the transport and the staff to get you where you want to be, safely and comfortably.

Children and adults alike will benefit from this service.

We continue in our effort to raise funds for this incredible cause, which will make such a difference to many people's lives and the Foundation is currently in the early stages of applying for charity status.

Thinking of taking part in a fundraising event and looking for a great local cause to support, why not get in touch with us at Wings2fly.

Wings2fly rely on donations to get this wonderful cause off the ground. There are various ways you can donate and various amounts from £1, we thank you most sincerely for all donations received.

Our gogetfunding account currently the simplest, quickest and most convenient way of giving to Wings2fly. Secure and safe, you can donate a set amount, set up regular donations or an individual one-off payment. Just follow the 'Donate Now' link highlighted in Orange on this page...

Thank you.

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We are continuing in our efforts to raise £75k to purchase two dedicated ambulances which, together with local volunteer registered clinicians, will form the basis of Wings2fly.

Gary is a local paramedic who wants to help terminally-ill patients fulfil their final wishes as well as providing a 24 hour children’s ambulance service which will provide free travel to local children in need of life saving treatment or surgery.

Wings2fly will be dedicated to brightening the lives of children and adults suffering from a serious or terminal illness. We have been working for the past 2 years to design a specialist ambulance service which will enable terminally ill children and their families to leave the confines of their home, hospice or hospital.

Caring staff will provide transport for local and long-distance paediatric surgery and treatment, as well as transporting patients to destinations to fulfil their final wishes and create lasting memories. Safe in the knowledge that their clinical needs will be monitored and observed by medical professionals.

Gary came up with the idea after his late nan Jean passed away. He was at work, transferring a terminally-ill patient to a hospice, and when there was a delay, he asked the patient where she would like to go.

The patient wanted to see the beach a final time and Gary and his crew mate even arranged for the stretcher-bound lady to feel the sand fall between her fingers one last time.

A few months later Gary founded Wings2fly and is hoping from a wish perspective, to bring terminally ill people to events such as weddings, family gatherings, museums, galleries, car shows, football matches, beaches and so on...

'We can't make them better but we can give them so much joy'.

Gary, who has worked on frontline emergency ambulances for the over 16 years as an EMT/Paramedic, with the help of his colleagues in the ambulance service and local hospitals, aims to provide a service for local residents that will ensure the care and dignity in the most difficult times.

'Every day we will help terminally ill people’.

‘It's so nice to see them happy. For us it's something easy to do but for them it's something so special.

'But for me, the most beautiful thing I think I have done was for that woman who was in a hospital for months and after being given a terminal diagnosis, she was taken into a hospice.

'All she wanted was to see the beach for one last time. We took her there and she was just laying there, looking around. I will never forget the smile it put on her face.

'Three days later, she passed away. It was such a beautiful wish, so simple for us yet so meaningful for her.'

This was what really gave me the inspiration to design Wings2fly.

We had the pleasure of meeting some fantastic people from different charities when I attended the Dorset plane pull last year at Hurn and the feedback regarding our venture was tremendous.

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Hi, I'm Gary, a Paramedic with 16 years experience working on frontline ambulances for the NHS.

We are looking to provide smaller transporters, which are designed to convey palliative care and end of life patients, from home to a receiving medical centre, hospital or hospice and back again. The service would entail collecting and transporting the patients in a safe and comfortable environment, from where they are living, taking them to where they will be having their treatment. If required staying with the patient whilst they have their treatment and then bringing them back home in readiness for their next course of treatment.

The regions to be covered by the transporters initially will be: Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, New Milton, Verwood, Ringwood, Fordingbridge, Wimborne, Blandford and surrounding areas. There would be no charge to the patients for our Service.

We will also aim to provide assistance to frontline crews and Emergency Department staff by easing demand on the service.

Funds raised for Wings2fly will also be used to help purchase and fully equip, two brand new, state-of-the-art high dependency/intensive care ambulance, which we will offer exclusive use to our local Emergency Department.

We hope that this will help ease the current strain placed on our local hospitals and NHS ambulance service. The ambulance would be based in the south, Bournemouth & Poole areas, to assist both local hospitals in transferring the sick and injured. The ambulance will be designed and ready to provide High dependency and Intensive care to paediatrics, maternity and other extremely unwell patients, requiring transfer to another medical facility

Thank you so much for taking the time to read about this wonderful and exciting cause. We invite you to follow our progress and please share our appeal with your friends, family and colleagues. Any sponsors or donations that people wish to contribute, will be greatly appreciated.

There are many fundraising events upcoming and will be featured on the website once it is completed. Please check back here and follow our campaign in the meantime

I would like this to be a collective donation and for everyone to have contributed to helping the less fortunate with the same ethos as myself.

Thank you again for reading and for your continued support.

Best wishes

Gary