The Northland Emergency Services Trust (NEST) is a charitable trust established to provide a dedicated rescue helicopter service for the people in Northland. The Trust is supported by the generous contributions made by local Sponsors, individuals, families, businesses and organisations.

A Board of Trustees governs The Northland Emergency Services Trust and oversees the strategic direction and management.

All NEST's Trustees are Northlanders, with personal experience of the unsealed roads, changeable weather and widely dispersed populace, and are aware of the high morbidity and trauma pathology-factors which combine to render the use of a rescue helicopter essential.