The Carr Family Foundation is proud to support the Canterbury West Coast Air Rescue Trust who have been supporting emergency rescue helicopter services since 1989.
The Trust works in partnership with GCH Aviation to deliver Canterbury’s Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service, based in Christchurch, and the West Coast ROA Mining Rescue Helicopter Service, based in Greymouth. Each year the rescue helicopters and their crews average over 950 life-saving missions across the regions, attending everything from motor vehicle, industrial and farm accidents, to medical events, maternity and inter-hospital patient transfers.
The rescue helicopter service is only partly Government funded, and is therefore reliant on the generosity of individuals, businesses, and organisations, like the Carr Family Foundation, to help it raise over $6m each year to ensure our crews can be there for each and every patient at their time of greatest need.