National Air Ambulance Week

Staff and Volunteers from Essex & Herts Air Ambulance (EHAAT) will be out and about during National Air Ambulance Week (Monday 10^th to Sunday 16^th September) raising awareness and collecting donations for the life-saving Charity.

This annual initiative sees air ambulance charities from Scotland to Cornwall working together to publicise their work and raise funds. The UK’s air ambulance charities are funded by the generosity of the public and treat over 25,000 patients a year. Across the UK an air ambulance is deployed every 10 minutes.

Throughout September EHAAT’s `Collection Crew’ will be at pre-arranged locations across the two counties speaking to members of the public, collecting donations and selling pin badges.

Natasha Robertson, Hertfordshire Fundraising Manager at EHAAT said,

National Air Ambulance Week is a great opportunity for us to talk to people in the community about how their donation really does make a difference. It costs over £500,000 a month to cover all our costs and with no direct funding from central Government we depend on the people of Essex and Hertfordshire to remain operational and saving lives.”

See below for details of the locations in Essex and Hertfordshire where EHAAT Staff and Volunteers will be collecting during the week:

EHAAT collections for National Air Ambulance Week (10^th to 16^th September)

Essex

7^th/8^th/9^th              Morrisons (Eastwood, Southend-on-Sea)

10^th                        Asda (Chelmer Village, Chelmsford)

10^th/11^th               East of England Co-op (Stanway Retail Park, Colchester)

13^th/14^th               East of England Co-Op, (Halstead)

All week                Freeport Braintree

16^th                        Morrisons (Harwich)

Hertfordshire

8th                         Stevenage Town Centre (Hertfordshire NAAW Celebration Day)

8/9^th                      Brookfield Farm Cheshunt, Hatfield Galleria, Intu Watford

13^th                        Morrisons, Letchworth

14^th                        Sainsbury’s, Hitchin and Morrisons, Royston

15^th                        Bishop’s Stortford Fire Station, Morrisons (Letchworth), Asda (Watford), The Marlowes   Shopping Centre (Hemel Hempstead), Morrisons          (Royston), Asda (Hatfield), Sainsbury’s (Jackson Square, Bishops Stortford)

16^th                         Asda (Hatfield) and Morrisons (Royston)