Archives: Community TYs

A huge thank you to Laurie and her customers at the Waggon and Horses Fairburn who have raised an impressive £24,000 for Yorkshire Air Ambulance over the years. Laurie has been the landlady at the pub for the past nine years and retires next week.

Helen Berriman, West Yorkshire Regional Fundraiser for Yorkshire Air Ambulance, said: “We cannot thank Laurie and all of her customers enough for their support and generosity over the last few years. The money raised equates to two days running costs for the charity and has really helped towards keeping our helicopters airborne and saving lives across Yorkshire. We would like to wish Laurie a very happy retirement.”

A big thank you to Syngenta in Huddersfield who donated an incredible £2,500 to YAA. The generous donation was the cost of the Christmas party to Yorkshire Air Ambulance after it was cancelled due to the pandemic restrictions. Staff were able to choose a charity to support and chose Yorkshire Air Ambulance. Thank you to everyone at Syngenta for their support.

A big thank you to the staff of MGF Castleford for choosing Yorkshire Air Ambulance as their charity of the year. MGF offer each branch the opportunity to choose a charity to support and the company then donates the profits from the sales of one of their safety boxes, which are used in excavations. In 2021, the Castleford branch raised an incredible £1,534.60 for Yorkshire Air Ambulance, enough to fund both air ambulances for three hours.  Thank you to all the staff of MGF Castleford for their support.

Royal Antidiluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOB) – Alverton Lodge recently presented Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) Regional Fundraising Manager North & East, Lin Stead, with a cheque for £1000 at the Oddfellows Arms Northallerton. YAA were one of their chosen charities to support in 2021.

Thank you to them for choosing to support YAA.

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To find out more about how your group, business, or organisation can support YAA click HERE.

High Paradise Farm Tea Room in Boltby held a Christmas Fayre in December 2021, raising a fabulous £1404.

Thank you to Ginni and her team, all who attended supporting the event, and to the stallholders for their contributions to the YAA Charity.

This takes the money raised over the last 2 years to £2337.92

Here is Sausage the dog wearing his YAA Doggy Bandana at the tea room and the main image is of the fabulous cakes made by the team at High Paradise Farm.

To read more of our Community Thank You’s click HERE.

A big thank you to AEGIS Martial Arts who held a kickathon for us in December and raised £7,182.44.

The Kickathon took place with their 700 members held across four groups on the same day and they managed to achieve 10,000 kicks.

Helen Berriman, West Yorkshire Regional Fundraiser for Yorkshire Air Ambulance, said: “We would like to say a huge thank you to AEGIS Martial Arts for organising the kickathon and to everyone who took part.

The £7,182 raised will help greatly towards keeping our air ambulances maintained and flying across the region.”

A big thank you to one of our longstanding supporters Oye Jemiyo for organising another triumphant 8-hour table tennis match and for raising an incredible £1,273.73 with more funds still yet to be received.

Oye, a wheelchair table tennis player who has ranked highly in both UK and world table tennis championships has been organising a table tennis match for the charity since 2019.

Helen Berriman, West Yorkshire Fundraiser for Yorkshire Air Ambulance, said: “I would like to thank Oye for his continuous support and generosity and congratulate him on another fantastic fundraiser for our Charity. It costs £12,000 a day to keep both of Yorkshire’s air ambulances maintained and in the air and the money raised will help greatly towards the vital funding of our service.”

Read more of our Community Thank You’s HERE.

The Hawes-Close-Knit-Friends meet every Tuesday in the Board Inn in Hawes for an afternoon of knitting and nattering.  Last year they created a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party complete with Alice, a Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts, Cheshire Cat, the White Rabbit, the Mad March Hare, a sleepy dormouse, a caterpillar and obviously plenty of tea and cakes!  The installation on a table outside the Board Inn delighted all the Summer visitors and locals alike.

The installation was so popular that the knitted scene raised over £1,200 which was split between Yorkshire Air Ambulance and the Hawes Christmas Lights.

The group are busy knitting and crocheting through the winter months but not telling anyone the woolly theme for 2022 – you’ll have to visit Hawes in the Summer to find out!

One of the members, Fiona Gill commented: “Luckily none of us has ever needed the air ambulance but we’re mighty glad you’re there.  Keep up the good work.”

Tessa Klemz, North Yorkshire Community Fundraiser recently visited the group and thanked them for being so creative in aid of Yorkshire Air Ambulance and raising much-appreciated funds and awareness in rural Wensleydale.

Read more of our Community Thank You’s HERE.

A big thank you to Halifax Natwest for displaying our collection tins in-store and their very generous customers for raising an incredible £1.022.54 for Yorkshire Air Ambulance over the last two years.

Helen Berriman, West Yorkshire Regional Fundraiser for Yorkshire Air Ambulance, said: ” Businesses serving local communities like Natwest are the lifeblood of our charity. Not only do they raise vital funds to keep both air ambulances in the air, but they also spread awareness of the work we do. It costs £12,000 every day to keep our charity running and we are very thankful for all the support we received from the Halifax Natwest branch.”

Read more of our Community Thank You’s HERE.

Angela, Mel and Liv from the Leyburn branch of Walter Dawson arranged a glittering Charity Ball at Tennants Auction House in Leyburn last November and raised a phenomenal £14,000.

Walter Dawson has eight branches across the county and collectively chose YAA as their Business Charity of the Year in 2021, having already raised over £20,000 last Summer with a team of 35 taking on the gruelling 24.5-mile Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge.

The Leyburn branch decided to organise the Ball as one of their colleagues Adele Chambers was carried by YAA in Spring 2021, having collapsed in the office and subsequently died two weeks later.  Adele and her colleagues had started thinking of organising a Ball for post-Covid so after Adele died, her three colleagues were even more determined that the Ball should happen and to raise funds for YAA in memory of their colleague.  They sold almost 400 tickets, all the tables were sponsored by local businesses, there was an Auction, Raffle and everyone had a brilliant time and was delighted to be able to have a party after the pandemic restrictions.

Tessa Klemz, North Community Fundraiser said “The team at Walter Dawson organised such a brilliant evening in aid of YAA and we’re delighted that they chose to support YAA and remember their much-missed colleague Adele.  The rural Leyburn community are fully aware of the importance of the life-saving service in the Dales and so are very generous supporters of YAA”

A big thank you to Gillian Carter who has knitted some wonderful items for us to sell at our stalls. There are some fantastic items including mermaids, monkeys and doll blankets.

The residents at Rowan Court in Thirsk arranged a fundraising afternoon with a raffle, bookstall, delicious cake stall and also sold YAA Christmas cards.  All their hard work raised a staggering £784.25 which will help to keep the two yellow helicopters flying across Yorkshire saving lives.  Tessa Klemz, North Yorkshire Community Fundraiser went to collect the donation and thanked them for their generous support.  Residential Manager, Andrea Brazil mentioned that the residents would like to make the event an annual occasion.  Thank you to all at Rowan Court!

You can get your YAA Christmas cards here.