Devon Air Ambulance scoops Prestigious Retail Award for their Barnstaple Community Hub

The North Devon charity shop has won ‘The WOW! Factor’ category at this year’s Charity Retail Association awards for Best Shop Interior.

Notes for editors

• Avril worked for the charity for 17 years as Manager of the charity’s original Barnstaple shop across the road from the new Community Hub. Sadly, Avril passed away in early 2023. She was well-known within the Barnstaple community for her networking with traders and different local groups while tirelessly raising the profile of Devon Air Ambulance within North Devon.
• Devon Air Ambulance Community Hub can be found at 60 Boutport St, Barnstaple, EX31 1SH
• The shop also houses spaces for the charity’s rapid response Critical Care Car at the unit’s rear, allowing the DAA clinical crew to use this as a base for their operations, enabling them to be dispatched quickly in an emergency.
• As with many of the Devon Air Ambulance charity shops, positioned at the front of the building there is also an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) available for community use 24/7 should anyone need to use it to assist someone in Cardiac Arrest.
• DAA’s Barnstaple Community Hub opened on Saturday 15 July 2023.