Great North Air Ambulance Service
As you all know, our colleague was recently involved in a horrible car accident and, along with the fire, ambulance and police, the Great North Air Ambulance aided in the rescue.
The GNAAS operates across a huge 8000 square miles from the Scottish Borders down to North Yorkshire and from the east coast across to the west coast. Their helicopters can be anywhere in the region within 15 minutes with trauma doctors and paramedics on board.
Last week our colleague was thankfully airlifted to hospital by one of the GNAAS helicopters. This event has brought the sterling work of the GNAAS to our focus and we thought therefore we could show our appreciation of their work by adopting the Air Ambulance as our charity for this year.
Did you Know?
• GNAAS is not recognised as one of the emergency services
• The service does not receive any Government or National Lottery funding and therefore relies on the support of the public to continue its work.
• It costs £2500 per mission, regardless of whether the patient needs airlifting
Over the next twelve months we will be running a series of fundraising events to raise funds for the Air Ambulance service in our region, supporting the crucial work that they do, saving lives every single day.
As it costs £2500 every time the helicopter is sent we thought that we should try and make that our fundraising target. Yesterday Kay opened our P+HS bake off challenge with a kitchen full of cupcakes with added bling, flapjacks and rocky road. She well and truly threw down the gauntlet for the remaining 13 bakers who have kindly volunteered to roll up their sleeves and get their pinafores at the ready! Thanks Kay! As well as the baking we’ll be adding more events into the (baking) mix to help raise the money; for one thing £2500 is an awful lot of cake.
So watch this space for more up and coming events and send all your fundraising ideas to either myself, Diana or Cath Oldcorn.
Delicious cakes launch the bake-off challenge
