CHAR I T Y OF THE YEAR
CHARI T Y OF THE YEAR E ast An g lian Air Ambulanc e THIS YEAR, BRIGHT PUBLISHING WILL BE RAISING FUNDS FOR REGIONAL LIFE-SAVERS EAAA, IN A BID TO HELP THE TEAM GO 24/7
n 2020, Cambridge Edition is pledging to support East Anglian Air Ambulance, a life-saving local charity that depends on donations to
from occasional grants, receives no direct funding from the government. Team Edition (and our colleagues at Bright Publishing) want to do our bit to support this incredible charity, so we’ve set ourselves a fundraising goal of £10,000 for EAAA in 2020. We’ve got sporting events, raffles, bucket shaking, bake sales and more planned – and we’re asking for your help! WHY EAAA? To say that EAAA makes a difference in our community is a colossal
understatement: the highly-skilled team attends to the very worst medical emergencies; caring for local people in their most dire moments of need and comforting them in the months that follow if they need it, through their aftercare programme. Since its launch in 2000, EAAA has been dispatched to more than 27,000 life-saving missions, averaging eight per day. The service enables the most critical patients to get to appropriate hospitals in the quickest way possible, but it’s more than just a transportation
keep its vital service operating.
Providing Helicopter Emergency
Medical Services (HEMS) across Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire, EAAA exists to save lives by getting specialist doctors and critical care paramedics by air or car to seriously ill or injured people in the region. It needs around £13 million per year to keep its service airborne, but aside
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