About Us

Joanna is just one of the patients whose life we saved this year - she's pictured with some of her team of lifesavers.

2024 has been a year of progress at Wellington Free Ambulance, progress and change that is needed to ensure our services have the capacity and capability to be there for our communities’ growing and changing needs.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has supported Wellington Free during 2024 – it is because of you, your generosity of time and also donations, that we are able to continue the mahi and mission started almost 100 years ago. We are all fiercely proud of our free emergency ambulance service and will continue to uphold that founding value well into the future thanks to your support.

Wellington Free Ambulance is a partnership, our team supporting our community, our community supporting our team. The strength of that connection is strong, I hear it and see it each and every day. Whether that be talking with paramedics on station, talking to call takers in our clinical communications centre or hearing from people who have needed our service - the thread that runs through those conversations is people. That feeling of relief when you know help is on the way, the huge respect for the clinical professionalism of our frontline services, the intense gratitude and depth of relationship that is developed over time through the patient transfer service. All this does not exist without the extreme dedication of our people and the support of our community.

Read about the difference and impact your support has made throughout 2024.