GOLF DAY RAISES £3500

The Golf Day sponsored by Leek United Building Society on
June 18th raised £3500 for the County Air Ambulance Trust.
Our thanks to all those involved in organising the event
and all those who took part.

T-SHIRT APPEAL GOES SKY HIGH

Customers at a Leamington builders’ merchant have helped raise more than a thousand pounds for County Air Ambulance Trust.

(l-r) crew doctor Peter Maloney, BPS director Emma Dibble, fundraising operations manager
Arthur Worthington, crew paramedic Chris Harris

Building and Plumping Supplies Ltd (BPS) totted up £1,237 for the Trust from its recent t-shirt appeal. All four of the Tachbrook Park Drive business’s sites took part in the fundraiser by offering customers a free t-shirt in exchange for a donation to the charity, which provides rapid-response emergency care across the Midlands.

BPS director Emma Dibble visited one of the trust’s operational bases, RAF Cosford in Wolverhampton, to personally hand over the funds and meet the crew of paramedics, doctors and pilots. “We chose to support County Air Ambulance Trust because it provides a crucial and outstanding service for the community. And as all of our branches fall into its catchment area, it means the whole company can get behind the charity with future fundraising events,” she said.

Arthur Worthington, the Trust’s fundraising operations manager, said: “We just couldn't operate without the help of people and organisations like Building and Plumbing Supplies, and this is a lovely example of them working closely with the local community to achieve something which we hope will make a real and lasting difference to someone in their dire moment of need. “The ability to fly emergency cases direct to hospital and give them expert medical help can yield speedy recoveries and may be the difference between life and death.”

BPS website: www.bpslifestyles.co.uk