Was that you on the news giving forth?
certainly looked like him. -- Adie (replace spam with nickname to reply) UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ Triumph ZX9R / GSF1200 bandit (for sale) / CG125 keeper of the FAQ for my sins MRO#11 BOTAFOF#7 BOTAFOT#130 DIAABTCOD#17 MIB#24 YTC#16 BOB#15 ex-UKRMMA#22 BOMB#11
Pip wibbled: Just for you I've installed Xana - it won't stop me spouting shite but I believe the posting format may not offend you anymore.
<understatement of the century alert> I bet you're more than a bit happy with how the donations have gone. -- Adie (replace spam with nickname to reply) UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ Triumph ZX9R / GSF1200 bandit (for sale) / CG125 keeper of the FAQ for my sins MRO#11 BOTAFOF#7 BOTAFOT#130 DIAABTCOD#17 MIB#24 YTC#16 BOB#15 ex-UKRMMA#22 BOMB#11
I've been trying to work out the maths ... £51,000 = 150 flights = £340/ flight £3600/day for helicopter & paramedics. 1000 incidents/year = ~ 3 incidents/day = £3600/3 = £1200 flight .. so where does the £340 figure come from? I know I'm probably being thick, but is that purely just servicing & renting the helicopter? I presume the pilot isn't on the NHS payroll, but paramedics are? I have no idea, and my head hurts. But bloody well done, not many people can say they've raised £50k in 24 hours. Some of the donations are around the £500 mark as well ...
Ohhh Yessss. Now we're over 60k were going to start splitting new donations among all air ambulance services. Today Yorkshire, tomorrow, the Weald.
We are now extending our appeal to raise money for all the air ambulances in England and Wales (Scotland *is* state funded - go figure; maybe because of sparse population and tortuous road routes to towns from the far north) So if you want to donate through our page it will benefit your local air ambulance charity as of 10am monday morning. http://www.justgiving.com/PHRichardHammond CURRENT TOTAL IS UP OVER 70K! Cheers tallbloke
The YAA will be pissed when they find out their £70k is now just £10k when split with the rest! I've always wondered, if you are taken to hospital by air ambulance, can you ask for a window seat? Oh, and currently the page says " £61,064.50" ... so what's happened to the other £10k ... huh? huh?
elyob wrote Being spent on a study to evaluate the health and safety issues involved in Helicopter transport I expect.
tallbloke wrote: Excellent work! The appeal got a mention on the news earlier, although they did say that it was a group of motorists that got it going. -- Lesley CBR600FW SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster) BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12 BONY#54P BOB#18 Real burds don't take hormones, they rage naturally
All the donations up to 10am monday are going to the YAA because thats what the donators donated for. The figure is closer to 90,000 mow. All the donations after 10am monday will be split evenly between all 18 air ambulance charities. I'm in daily email contact with the CEO of the YAA Martin Eede, who also happens to be vice chair of the National association of air ambulance charities. You get to travel cargo class in air ambulances if you are the injured party. At least it's a fully reclined seat. If you look at the bottom of the page, you'll see the tax back figure, which is to be added to the headline figure at the top of the page, after deductions for VAT transaction charges, and admin. Basically, if you donate a tenner and tick the boxes to reclaim the tax, the charity gets 11.90. We had a kid of 8 yesterday who donated his pocket money and reclaimed the tax on it! Go to http://www.justgiving.com/PHRichardHammond and see for yourself. Cheers Rog
I'm a TVR owner as well as a bike owner. I keep up with the TVR wedge forum on pistonheads.com and when the news broke about Hammond, I offered to take a GWS card from everyone down to the leeds general infirmary. Someone asked if I would take some flowers they wanted to buy and I said they wouldn't accept flowers on the ICU ward and anyway Clarkson and May would take the piss if we sent him girly flowers, so why not donate to the Yorks Air Ambulance which had scooped him up, as they rely on donations. The idea got a lot of nods from other contributors and then Alex Goss suggested using the justgiving.com website for the donations rather than a paypal account, 'cos of the tax relief. the rest as they say, is history. Yesterday, after I did the TV interviews, I managed to sneak up to the HDU ward the Hamster was on and pass on the card and a printoff of around 70 A4 pages of the donations and gws messages to a nurse who took it straight into his room and passed it to James May. This evening Mindi Hammond has issued a statement asking folk not to send any more flowers but to donate to the Yorkshire air ambulance instead. http://www.justgiving.com/PHRichardHammond
