Photo left to right: Heidi Fowler (Dodd & Co), David Hawkins (Pride Of Cumbria representative), Alan McViety (Dodd & Co).
Dodd & Co are delighted to hand over a cheque for £700 to The Great North Air Ambulance.
£500 of the donation was made by the firm in lieu of sending corporate Christmas cards and the balance of the money was donations made by staff, either by way of personal donations or money made by baking and selling cakes.
The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) is a charity operating a fleet of helicopters across an area of 8,000 square miles, from the Scottish borders to North Yorkshire, from east coast to west. Their helicopters can be anywhere in the region in fifteen minutes. On board are specialist trauma doctors and paramedics, bringing Accident & Emergency expertise to the scene, giving the patient the best possible chance of recovery. They continually examine their methods to ensure that the patients can continue to expect this level of service.
To give you some indication of their need for our help, it costs £2,500 per mission to fly, regardless of whether or not the patient is airlifted. This figure takes into account the cost of the aircraft, its storage and fuel, paying the pilots and the paramedics, the medicine, and other equipment. The crew responds to hundreds of call-outs a month and to satisfy this demand it takes about £6m a year in fundraising. The service does not receive any government or National Lottery funding and therefore relies on the support of the public to continue its work.
Alan McViety, partner, commented, “We are delighted to support such a worthy charity as we so often see the air ambulance in our Cumbrian skies. We made the decision not to send cards many years ago as we felt the money could be spent better and used more wisely in other areas. We will happily continue to support a different local charity each year.”
Anyone wishing to find out more about the air ambulance can visit the website www.greatnorthairambulance.co.uk.
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