A TEAM from Lye’s Midlands Air Ambulance Charity are set to take on the Bear Grylls Survival Academy Challenge – an intensive five day survival skills course like no other.

As part of the organisation’s Air25 25th anniversary celebrations, employees from the charity’s corporate partners alongside flight paramedics Ryan James and Karen Baker will be taking on the challenge, created exclusively for the charity in Zimbabwe.

Collectively, they hope to raise £100,000 for the lifesaving Dudley Road charity which will help to fund forty lifesaving air ambulance missions.

Sofia Voutianitis, corporate partnerships manager, said: “When the Bear Grylls team offered to create an exclusive challenge for our corporate partners, we jumped at the chance.

“The charity relies solely on donations to operate three air ambulances, so we are always looking at different events to take part in to raise funds.

“12 of us will fly to Zimbabwe in November for the five day challenge which culminates in a 36 hour expedition, putting skills such as tracking, skinning, and crossing the ultimate in difficult terrain to the test.

“It will be the biggest physical challenge in the history of the charity, but we’re committed to raising as much as we can.”

To support the team’s challenge and donate to Midlands Air Ambulance Charity, visit www.justgiving.com/fundraising/beargryllsafricachallenge2016

For more information about the charity’s lifesaving missions, call 0800 840 20 40, or visit www.midlandsairambulance.com