Festival in record cash boost for air ambulance.ORGANISERS of an annual North East event will today hand over pounds 17,000 to a vital lifesaving service. The Otterburn Festival was set up 10 years ago and each event has raised money for the Great North Air Ambulance The Great North Air Ambulance (GNAA) is an English charity based in the United Kingdom. It provides air ambulance services across the North of England from the Scottish border south to North Yorkshire in the east and Cumbria in the west. Service, which has a helicopter based at an Army training camp near the village. Every year, the festival - held in the grounds of the Otterburn Mill - has topped its fundraising
This year's festival, which took place over the weekend of July 18 and 19, raised pounds 17,004 - shattering the figure set last year of pounds 11,700. In total, the event has now raised almost pounds 90,000 for the air ambulance air ambulance Emergency medicine A helicopter or, less commonly, a fixed wing aircraft, used to evacuate a person who requires immediate medical attention that cannot be provided at his/her current location . A cheque for this year's total is to be handed over to the charity today. The presentation is to take place at the mill, which bankrolled the early festivals. Present will be some of the eight volunteer festival organisers and an air ambulance crew, which is to fly in especially from the camp. Festival organiser Wesley Turnbull, who lives in the nearby town of Bellingham, said: "It is always our donor charity because it is needed in our area badly enough. "Everybody in this whole area is very pro-air ambulance - they are very supportive of us." |
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