Safe Anaesthesia Worldwide is a charity founded in Marden 4 years ago in order to reduce the needless pain, suffering and death that occurs in many parts of the world whenever there is no satisfactory anaesthetic service. In the UK we take a safe anaesthetic for granted, but unfortunately this service is still unavailable to any patients in the poorest and most isolated parts of the world leading to life-saving operations being delayed when urgently required with devastating results. Safe Anaesthesia Worldwide was set up to enable anaesthesia to be available in even the most isolated hospitals in the poorest counties.