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Post by blitzman5 on Sept 27, 2009 23:47:09 GMT 1
HI Everybody just an update on our presention night we as a group raised £45,000 for the northeast airambulance bring our total for the summer of 2006 to £243,000, not bad for a bunch of bikers ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Jaz66 on Sept 28, 2009 1:26:51 GMT 1
HI Everybody just an update on our presention night we as a group raised £45,000 for the northeast airambulance bring our total for the summer of 2006 to £243,000, not bad for a bunch of bikers ;D ;D ;D fantastic achievement Blitzman... ;D Ps did you mean 2009? Still fantastiuc effort all around...
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Post by skyhook on Sept 28, 2009 8:22:45 GMT 1
Fantastiuc effort and as you say for a bunch of bikers, My hat off to you all Blitzman. ;D
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Post by McF on Sept 28, 2009 8:41:44 GMT 1
That's excellent news The GNAA team will be delighted with that income; it cost over £1million pounds a year to run a Helicopter and they have three! Covering all of England north of York and the A66, coast to coast. A popular area for walking (Pennines, Lake District, North Yorks Moors, Yorkshire Dales and Northumbria). With a good network of roads to have accidents on and all of this remote from A&E services. The helicopters are on standby 24/7 and are situated to enable them to be anywhere in the areas described within 15 minutes flying time. Jumping on my soap box (OK, OK, I live on the d@mned thing!) I am staggered that the NHS don't fund these services (there are several more throughout the country - 31 I think in England and Wales www.airambulanceassociation.co.uk/find_your_air_ambulance.php). Out of an NHS budget of £90billion www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/aboutnhs/Pages/About.aspx (probably more now but I'm not sure if that also covers Scotland and Northern Ireland), you would think someone could find £60 million (let's say it costs £2million per helicopter) Jaz - it's total funds raised of £243,000 since Jun 06 www.boundary500.co.uk/index.phpAnyway - well done Blitzman and the Boundary group. I bet you're very pleased you didn't need the GNAA when you came a cropper on your ZX10
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Post by blitzman5 on Sept 29, 2009 0:49:56 GMT 1
Thanks jazz66 for the amount yes from the summer of 2006 to 2009 the following letter was sent to all involved from the guy who started all this group
Hi everyone. Just to keep everyone up to speed following our presentation evening on Friday 25th September 2009. The event was extremely well attended by about 180 people. Since January 2009 the Group have raised a minimum of £45,256 pounds. Since June 2006 the group have raised for both The Great North Air Ambulance and Zoes Baby Hospice, £243,306 which I think you will agree is a fantastic amount in just over three years. The excecutive of the Great North Air Ambulance are in the process of changing the three helicopters. As a result of all your hard work and dedication to the cause they have decided that all three helicopters will now carry the Boundary 500 Motorcycle Group Logo. That is absolutley brillant and shows how well thought of you all are. I will keep updating you with further news when I receive it. Many thanks for your continued support. Take care.
Brian.
We were also told we were able to provide enough money to fund over 100 mercy missions
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Post by blitzman5 on Dec 12, 2009 1:43:06 GMT 1
Well folks we have started again we went shaking buckets at one of our local shopping centers last Saturday in 4 hours we raised £1543.47p we are out next Saturday 19th all 200+bikers dressed as father Christmas (that will fool a few young ones)all in aid of ZOE'S PLACE a Children's hospice 1 of only 2 in the country last year we raised in excess of £25.000 so wish us all luck and fine weather it snowed last year
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Post by yellowmelos on Dec 12, 2009 11:44:11 GMT 1
Well done people, lets hope you raise more than £25 this year or was £25000..... godd luck anyway
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Post by blitzman5 on Dec 19, 2009 16:43:36 GMT 1
Sad news weather is to bad in the north east so ride abandoned :' ;D (the good news is it is now planed for the 5th February that will confuse the wee kids haha
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Post by blitzman5 on Apr 11, 2010 0:38:07 GMT 1
HI Everbody as you all know we put this Santa run on the back burner because of Bad weather but it Finlay took place on Feb 14th valentines day stated in local pages as Santa slept in ride if we all raised the min amount of sponsorship we would have raised £6,000 well to our shock of the generosity of the northeast people bear in mind our steel works has just closed leaving 1,600 people unemployed we raised £23.143.74p for our child's hospice Zoe's place pics can be found on our web site www.boundary500.co.ukEdit by McF - direct link to the Boundary 500 website
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Post by blitzman5 on Apr 11, 2010 0:44:10 GMT 1
All so our summer ride for the air-ambulance in June details on our web if you have not visited the Yorkshire dales now is your chance as a few days before our weekend we will be camping there with guided ride out everyday before the weekend events of which you can take part bbq's FREE camping BEER £1 A PINT WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT EXCEPT THE SUN family's are more than welcome
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Post by McF on Apr 11, 2010 7:00:41 GMT 1
we raised £23.143.74p for our child's hospice Zoe's place Brilliant - well done all WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT EXCEPT THE SUN Mylene Klass to warm my sleeping bag?
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