HEATHROW Airport has donated 6,000 respiratory face masks to NHS teams working at Thames Valley Air Ambulance and Hillingdon Hospital in the last week. 

The airport has reached out to other frontline organisations to offer more masks, recognising the ongoing need for key health workers to have specific while airport workers do not currently require them. 

The masks are in addition to initiatives by the airport and its partners to support the neighbouring communities. They include:

 Online educational resources available to schools and parents on the Heathrow website 

Heathrow Community Rangers being redeployed for tasks like delivering donations to food banks.