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Emergency Air Ambulance people in Sainsburys - Dawn Hoskins (5th Mar 2019 - 15:29:52) The Emergency Air Ambulance people are in Sainsbury’s today asking people to pay £1 per week to help them keep their helicopters running. 3 points. 1. I was embarrassed by how many people just shot them down quite rudely and stomped into the shop without giving them the time of day. 2. I feel ashamed at the state of this country when air ambulance crews have to beg for money in Supermarkets 3. It's only £1 per week people – I KNOW it should be funded by the government – but it isn’t and it might be you or a family member that needs urgent attention. Please sign up. It is a tiny lottery and the prizes are not worth mentioning really, but someone will definitely win £1,000 per draw, which isn’t to be sniffed at. Please share this and try to support this worthy cause – your life could depend on it!

Re: Emergency Air Ambulance people in Sainsburys - S (5th Mar 2019 - 22:27:06) Didn't Prince William have a job with them?

Re: Emergency Air Ambulance people in Sainsburys - Rob (5th Mar 2019 - 23:49:08) If you want to support a charity, give them money direct or via a method where agencies don't take their own cut. Charity is big business. I bet there weren't any money buckets, because the agency don't get their cut of that. It's naive to think that most of these charity collectors are doing it for the good of the charity. Of course there are exceptions.

Re: Emergency Air Ambulance people in Sainsburys - Kathy (6th Mar 2019 - 08:12:17) I think you will find that they are not allowed to collect cash in buckets.

Re: Emergency Air Ambulance people in Sainsburys - Debbie (6th Mar 2019 - 08:16:06) Hi Rob, Thanks for the heads up. I signed up yesterday and after reading your post I went on the air ambulance website and it costs exactly the same to do it through their website otherwise I was going to cancel the one I signed up yesterday and do it direct with them.

Re: Emergency Air Ambulance people in Sainsburys - Oliver (6th Mar 2019 - 10:02:01) I approached them and signed up a couple of weeks ago. My wife works as a paramedic and is full of praise for what the air ambulance crews do. I'm more than happy to contribute and help

Re: Emergency Air Ambulance people in Sainsburys - Dawn Hoskins (6th Mar 2019 - 12:50:25) Hi Rob, I checked online and it is the same cost to join this fundraising lottery whether you fill out the form with the air ambulance crew or whether you do it online. I don't know if that means they are getting a smaller cut/or having to pay the people doing the awareness campaign? I got the impression that they worked for the air ambulance service but that may have been nieve of me!

Re: Emergency Air Ambulance people in Sainsburys - k (6th Mar 2019 - 12:58:21) Been supporting this charity via their lottery for years, very good cause - Don't forget they have helped people around Liphook on a number of occasions- where would we be without them. But as 1 poster noted shame they have to raise their own funds - but that's the way it is.

Re: Emergency Air Ambulance people in Sainsburys - Claire (7th Mar 2019 - 15:29:26) .......and they were on the recreation ground today airlifting a Liphook resident - respect! No respect however for the number of people videoing the poor person being supported and treating it like a side show.

Re: Emergency Air Ambulance people in Sainsburys - J (7th Mar 2019 - 19:28:48) I think it should be noted that quite often the air ambulances and notably the RNLI prefer to be charity funded as it gives them more flexibility than if they were state funded. The H&IOW air ambulance is my company's (a large company) corporate charity at the moment.

Re: Emergency Air Ambulance people in Sainsburys - Elizabeth (7th Mar 2019 - 20:34:19) You don't have to join the lottery, you can give a monthly small donation instead which can be gift aided whereas the lottery can't be, I think the minimum monthly donation is £8. As someone here said, not much really if they save a life. I think it is the second time within a year that they've landed at the rec. Hats off to them.

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