KentLotus Annual Fundraiser for Kent Air Ambulance....
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KentLotus annual fundraiser - Hop Farm Motoring Pageant - Can you help?
Dear fellow Pistonheads,
A few minutes of your time if I may to seek your support for a very worthy cause.
As you probably won't know (we're not that famous!), last year we in the KentLotus (www.kentlotus.org) group from SELOC decided to adopt a local charity for a few fundraising activities each year. We picked the local air ambulance trust, details of whom can be found at www.kentairambulancetrust.com/ ...
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www.kentairambulancetrust.com
The Kent Air Ambulance Trust is a registered charity established in 1989 to
relieve sick and injured people in Kent by providing an Air Ambulance
Service for the benefit of the community.
Responding swiftly to 999 calls, Kent Air Ambulance delivers its medical
crew to the scene of an accident or medical emergency and transports
patients to the nearest major hospital or specialist unit, in a fraction of
the time taken by a land ambulance. The Kent Air Ambulance is one of 16
independent air ambulance operators and is funded entirely by charitable
donations, receiving no Government statutory or National Lottery funding.
Fast, flexible, flying direct and unhindered at over 150 mph to wherever it
is needed G-KAAT, our state of the art Air Ambulance, continues to save
lives by flying up to a thousand missions a year.
It costs approximately £1.5 million per year to provide Kent with an
emergency helicopter service, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. That's just
over £4000 per day!!
Since we do not receive Government or National Lottery funding the support
of the public is vital to the survival of the Kent Air Ambulance.
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Last year 3 of our members, Neil [49neil], Matt [silver99] and Kevin Ritson organised a superb display of our cars. We filled the passenger compartment of Neil's S1 Elise to the roofline with plastic balls and people paid £1 a go to guess the number in return for being entered into a prize draw for one of a varied selection of prizes which were donated by companies, members, friends etc.
With the help of various club members we raised over £800 for the charity.
Additionally we won best club stand at the show... which was nice.
This year muggins has the mantle of organiser, and with a great team assembled, we have some new ideas involving an Elise and quite a lot of balloons as our centrepiece, along with a few really good surprises on the weekend to raise even more cash for KAAT.
So, why I am I telling you all this? Well because we are currently planning this years effort and one thing we can always do with is help of either donations of cash (which will swell the fund raising coffers before we even set-up the stand), or better, offers of prizes which we can offer in our competition over the weekend which will help drawn in the punters!
Ideally we'd love a selection of prizes which will appeal across the board to adults, kids and families alike:
* Scalextric
* Watches
* Caps
* T-Shirts
* Tickets to events
etc.
For instance, currently we have a number of free tickets to Thorpe Park which we will be packaging as family days out, some SELOC memorabilia and Ted has kindly allowed me to post this thread, and has donated some PH T-Shirts as prizes (cheers Ted
).
So I have one request, a little cheeky, but if you don't ask, you don't get etc.
If any PH'ers, friends or advertisers, a company that you may know of etc. would like to consider donating a prize or making a donation to KAAT, would you please get in touch with me via my profile?
Many thanks in advance for your consideration.
Regards,
Tim Freeman aka "S Works"
>> Edited by S Works on Friday 21st April 19:40
Dear fellow Pistonheads,
A few minutes of your time if I may to seek your support for a very worthy cause.
As you probably won't know (we're not that famous!), last year we in the KentLotus (www.kentlotus.org) group from SELOC decided to adopt a local charity for a few fundraising activities each year. We picked the local air ambulance trust, details of whom can be found at www.kentairambulancetrust.com/ ...
----------------------------------------
www.kentairambulancetrust.com
The Kent Air Ambulance Trust is a registered charity established in 1989 to
relieve sick and injured people in Kent by providing an Air Ambulance
Service for the benefit of the community.
Responding swiftly to 999 calls, Kent Air Ambulance delivers its medical
crew to the scene of an accident or medical emergency and transports
patients to the nearest major hospital or specialist unit, in a fraction of
the time taken by a land ambulance. The Kent Air Ambulance is one of 16
independent air ambulance operators and is funded entirely by charitable
donations, receiving no Government statutory or National Lottery funding.
Fast, flexible, flying direct and unhindered at over 150 mph to wherever it
is needed G-KAAT, our state of the art Air Ambulance, continues to save
lives by flying up to a thousand missions a year.
It costs approximately £1.5 million per year to provide Kent with an
emergency helicopter service, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. That's just
over £4000 per day!!
Since we do not receive Government or National Lottery funding the support
of the public is vital to the survival of the Kent Air Ambulance.
----------------------------------------
Last year 3 of our members, Neil [49neil], Matt [silver99] and Kevin Ritson organised a superb display of our cars. We filled the passenger compartment of Neil's S1 Elise to the roofline with plastic balls and people paid £1 a go to guess the number in return for being entered into a prize draw for one of a varied selection of prizes which were donated by companies, members, friends etc.
With the help of various club members we raised over £800 for the charity.
Additionally we won best club stand at the show... which was nice.
This year muggins has the mantle of organiser, and with a great team assembled, we have some new ideas involving an Elise and quite a lot of balloons as our centrepiece, along with a few really good surprises on the weekend to raise even more cash for KAAT.
So, why I am I telling you all this? Well because we are currently planning this years effort and one thing we can always do with is help of either donations of cash (which will swell the fund raising coffers before we even set-up the stand), or better, offers of prizes which we can offer in our competition over the weekend which will help drawn in the punters!
Ideally we'd love a selection of prizes which will appeal across the board to adults, kids and families alike:
* Scalextric
* Watches
* Caps
* T-Shirts
* Tickets to events
etc.
For instance, currently we have a number of free tickets to Thorpe Park which we will be packaging as family days out, some SELOC memorabilia and Ted has kindly allowed me to post this thread, and has donated some PH T-Shirts as prizes (cheers Ted
). So I have one request, a little cheeky, but if you don't ask, you don't get etc.
If any PH'ers, friends or advertisers, a company that you may know of etc. would like to consider donating a prize or making a donation to KAAT, would you please get in touch with me via my profile?
Many thanks in advance for your consideration.
Regards,
Tim Freeman aka "S Works"
>> Edited by S Works on Friday 21st April 19:40
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