Thank you to everyone at the Scarborough branch of NFU Mutual who held a charity Party on the Farm event and raised an incredible £8000 for Yorkshire Air Ambulance.
The event comprised of a super evening hosted by the Stephenson family and a charity auction organised by GM Stevenson LTD alongside York Auction Mart.
YAA Community Fundraiser Keiron Hardwick recently went to visit the branch and was presented with a cheque for the money raised.
We would like to say a big thank you to Thirsk Ladies Club for their fantastic fundraising last year. The committee organised a very successful Summer lunch at Thirsk Auction Mart in July, raising over £1500 for Yorkshire Air Ambulance. They raised further funds by holding an Autumn Raffle and collecting donations from people who weren’t able to attend the events.
They recently presented us with a cheque for the fantastic amount raised, £3957.20
Thank you to everyone who contributed their time, to all those who attended the events and enjoyed a great afternoon and to all the businesses who supported the events with prize donations.
We would like to say thank you to the members of the Beverley Scooter Club who held a Northern Soul Night and raised £750 for Yorkshire Air Ambulance.
Members of the club recently gathered in Market Cross, Beverley, with their scooters to meet YAA Regional Fundraiser Rob Scott and present him with a cheque for the amount raised.
The club will be holding further fundraising events in aid of YAA throughout 2023.
Thank you to everyone at BayThorpe Shed in Robin Hoods Bay near Whitby for their very generous donation of £1000.
The team at BayThorpe Shed raise money by making and mending wooden items and also running a car park, donating funds raised to various charities.
Our Community Fundraiser, Keiron Hardwick went to visit them recently and was presented with a cheque for £1000.
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A huge thank you to SLR Consulting Ltd, in Sheffield, who voted for Yorkshire Air Ambulance to receive £800 from the Community Fund. They voted for YAA saying ‘It’s a very worthy cause’.
Our team had a wonderful time visiting their offices and chatting with them about the difference their donation will make.
Photo: Service Line Administrator Assistant Marie Keenan and Process Engineer Gianluca Santoro from SLR Consulting, presenting a cheque for the donation to our Regional Fundraising Manager (West & South) Vickie Bowden.
Mark and Jean Sayle from Gawthorne, Ossett, decided to celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary with donations to Yorkshire Air Ambulance. When they held a party to celebrate 50 years of marriage, instead of gifts, they asks friends and family to make donations to YAA. As well as this, they have also done two car boot sales and donated the money they made to Yorkshire Air Ambulance.
We would like to thank Mark and Jean for choosing to support Yorkshire Air Ambulance and wish them a very happy Golden Wedding Anniversary.
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A big thank you and well done to Harry Tanfield and the event organisers who raised £400 for YAA and Yorkshire Cancer Research from the first ride of the ‘Tanfield Tour of Yorkshire’.
Donations were shared between ourselves and Yorkshire Cancer Research, with YAA receiving £240.
Our North and East Yorkshire Fundraising Manager Lin Stead, said “We would like to thank Harry and the team for organising the Tanfield Tour of Yorkshire. As an independent charity, we rely heavily on fundraisers such as these to keep both aircraft airborne and saving lives across the region. We are incredibly grateful for the support.”
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A big thank you to Mick Glover and his team for arranging a Northern Soul Day in aid of us at the Birdwell Venue in Barnsley, which raised an incredible £1,675. This takes their total to date to over £4,000.
Laura Lawton, South Yorkshire Community Fundraiser for Yorkshire Air Ambulance, said: “We would like to thank Mick and his team for their continuous support and generosity. The money raised will help greatly towards the vital funding of our service.”
A big thank you to HGF Ltd employees who took on the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge in September and raised an incredible £2,075. Members took the challenge very seriously with some joining gyms to help prepare for the day and one lady even lost a toenail following the challenge.
Helen Berriman, West Yorkshire Regional Fundraiser for Yorkshire Air Ambulance, said: “Well done to the HGF Ltd employees for completing one of Yorkshire’s most challenging hikes. As an independent charity, we rely heavily on the generosity of businesses and individuals to keep our helicopters airborne and save lives across the region. We are incredibly grateful for all the support we receive.”
A big thank you to Biffa Waste Services, Leeds who have chosen to donate to Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) through their Health and Safety charity scheme.
Helen Berriman, West Yorkshire Regional Fundraiser for YAA, said: “We would like to say a huge thank you to Biffa for their very generous donation of £1,256.11 through their health and safety charity scheme. The money raised will help greatly towards the vital funding of our service and enables us to keep our helicopters airborne and save lives across the region.”
Seven year old Jeffrey Higginson joined in with Hayley Anderson’s Fitness Month of May in Ripon and raised over £670 of Hayley’s £4,800 total. Tessa Klemz, Regional Fundraiser, accepted the donation from Jeffrey, his mother Sonya and Ash who was going to carry Jeffrey the last few miles if he didn’t think he could manage it solo. Well done Jeffrey you’re a superstar fundraiser. Hayley is a fitness instructor and organised an enormous raffle, a group walk around Ripon plus a 3-hour exercise-a-thon session. A huge thank you to everyone who took part and raised such an amazing amount.
A big thank you to the Skipton office of NFU Mutual who generously donated £6,379 to us from their national agency giving fund. Employees from their 295 offices across the country were able to nominate a local worthy cause and the Skipton branch kindly chose Yorkshire Air Ambulance.
Tessa Klemz, North Yorkshire regional fundraiser for YAA said: “We’re incredibly thankful to the Skipton agency of NFU Mutual for nominating our charity. Yorkshire Air Ambulance provides rapid life-saving emergency response to five million people across four million acres of Yorkshire, and we rely on the generosity of the public to keep us in the skies and save lives. Particularly in areas such as rural North Yorkshire where our service is vital to the farming communities that we serve.”