Park lands a charity windfall for Air Ambulance
Big hearted bosses and guests at an Ambleside holiday park have provided a £1500 lift to the fund-raising efforts of the Great North Air Ambulance Service.
Guests at Skelwith Fold Caravan Park raised the amount throughout spring and summer 2011 by a series of events for the charity which the business has supported for many years.
They included the sale to park visitors of guided walks in the area, researched and written by two of Skelwith Fold's holiday home owners.
Also contributing to the charity coffers was the park's annual arts exhibition in spring which attracts hundreds of entries from park guests entering pictures, photographs and poetry.
The total brought in by the events was £750 which was then matched by the park to achieve the £1500 total handed over recently to the Great North Air Ambulance Service.
The service relies entirely on public donations to continue its life-saving work which operates across an area of 8000 square miles with Cumbria at its heart.
Its helicopters can be anywhere within the region in fifteen minutes, bringing medical help to patients in locations varying from motorways to mountain tops.
Skelwith Fold director Henry Wild said that the park's relatively remote location in rural Cumbria meant that it felt a special affinity with the work of the air-ambulance service:
"Many of our guests enjoy fell-walking on their visits, and we are always conscious of that fact that if any got into difficulties, the air-ambulance would be a potential life-saver.
"The service needs four million pounds a year to continue responding to the hundreds of call-outs it receives every month, and which give patients their best chance of recovery.
"Our guests also appreciate this, and their support has been magnificent," said Henry who is himself a helicopter pilot.
Special tribute was paid by Henry to Skelwith Fold holiday home owners who have given up their time to help organise the various fund-raising activities.
They are Jean Sandham and Pat Ballantine who helped organise many of the activities together with Bob Andrews, Ken and Barbara Bailey, Christine Neal, and Tony and Wendy Carroll.
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