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Charity fundraising
Each year we support a variety charities with initiatives, donations and fund raising. For 2010, our nominated charity will be Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air Ambulance - www.dlraa.co.uk.
Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air Ambulance (DLRAA), based at East Midlands Airport is a relatively new air ambulance service, taking over from County Air Ambulance on 1 April 2008. This service has moved the emphasis away from simply transporting casualties to hospital, to getting senior doctors and consultants to the scene of incidents as quickly as possible. DLRAA conveys its patients to specialist hospitals that can help specific injuries, not just the nearest hospital.
DLRAA provides life saving treatment and medication on site and en-route to hospital. This is an invaluable service in cases where land ambulances are unable to access the scene or where transfer by land ambulance would be too slow or risk further injury to the patient. DLRAA's primary response area is the 2,100 square miles of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland and will serve in excess of 1.4 million people.
In 2009, DLRAA undertook 943 missions, sometimes attending up to 4 or 5 incidents in one day. The missions vary but examples from 2009 include: 9% of missions being equestrian related, 40% being road traffic collisions involving cars, 10% being sporting accidents and 9% involving road traffic collisions with motor bikes etc.
Given that the charity receives no Government or Lottery funding, we rely entirely on public donations to help us raise the £1.5 million needed every year to maintain our life saving operation. Every penny donated really does make a difference.
For further information on the charity please visit: www.dlraa.co.uk or call: 0844 800 571
In 2009 we supported:
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The Laura Centre - www.thelauracentre.org.uk
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Breast Cancer Campaign - www.breastcancercampaign.org
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Rainbows Children’s Hospice - www.rainbows.co.uk
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Cancer Research UK - http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/
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The Prostate Cancer Charity - www.prostate-cancer.org.uk
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Help for Heroes - http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/
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RNLI - http://www.rnli.org.uk/
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The Hope Foundation for Cancer Research - http://www.hfcr.org/
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NSPCC - www.nspcc.org.uk
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Friends of St Peters
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The Poppy Appeal - www.poppy.org.uk
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