Donations to YAA

[mandragora]

For anyone who's been reading online or hearing the news about the very encouraging progress made by the Hamster, AKA Richard Hammond (he's now in a general ward and there are reports of him sitting up and eating cornflakes) if anyone wants to make a donation to the Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) service a website that has been set up to give donations is here.

The YAA very probably played a large part in saving Richard's life, and as my parents, sister and nephews all live in South Yorkshire (although I hope that they'll never need the YAA's services), I'm extremely happy that people have been so generous with their money - one person alone gave £50,000 which is mind-bogglingly generous and so far the donations, adding in the tax relief that UK residents can elect for, totals around £175,000.

Thanks to topgeartotty (a fine LJ community *g*) for the info.

Comments

[keletkezes.livejournal.com]

£175,000... That's about a week's running costs or something, I think :)

We did the Essex Air Ambulance raffle at home, and every time I go to Southend Air Show I like to support them. This year I bought a Helimed patch :D As they like to say:

You hope you'll never need us, but if you do, you'll be glad we were there.

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

*g* I don't think it costs quite as much as £175,000 per week. They need £500,000 for a new helicopter and are up to anout £220,000 now, so are almost halfway there.

[keletkezes.livejournal.com]

No, I was wrong: it's £1.5m a year according to East Mids Air Amb. Not bad going though, and a new helicopter is always useful because they keep getting bigger and more efficient.