Business on board We say a big ‘thank you’ to the local businesses that have continued to support Devon Air Ambulance this year

BUSINESS on Board

Despite the challenges that all local businesses have faced recently, we are so grateful to every one of them that has selfl essly continued to keep supporting Devon Air Ambulance with fundraising, donations and discounted services.

Over the Christmas period, Steve Hoskin Construction traditionally off er their construction clients a Christmas gift. This year, especially with COVID restrictions in place, SHC advised their clients that, instead of a gift, they would like to donate to 10 local charities instead. We are so very grateful for their generous off er that resulted in DAA receiving an amazing donation of £1,000!

In January, we received an amazing donation of just over £2,000 from Tam Asset Management from their “You Give, We Give” charitable giving campaign. Despite an incredibly challenging year, TAM achieved profi ts for their clients’ investment portfolios and, in 2021, were able to kindly donate to DAA once again.

As a thank you for our amazing lifesaving work, South West Highways are paying for the traffi c management staff DAA needed while replacing a window at our Topsham Vintage & Variety shop, an amazing £880 saving for us! We’ve had a fantastic working relationship with SWH for many years and this is just another example of how they continue to support us.

We are always sad to see an end to any business partnership, one being our two-year partnership with RGB Building Supplies. Through a diffi cult second year of fundraising in 2020, they still managed two successful incentives raising just over £2,800. This was from the sale of the charity dumpy bags with 25p from each bag donated to DAA plus their successful campaign “Love where you live”. Thank you to everyone at RGB for a great eff ort and for raising in the past two years, a brilliant overall total of £5,300 plus! Despite 2020 being a challenging year for all of us, Hoburne Devon Bay Holiday Park in Paignton decided to donate £1 to us from every booking fee they received, managing to raise £4,420!! We would like to thank the generosity of their holiday homeowners and holidaymakers for playing their part in this wonderful endeavour. The great news is that the Park has extended its charitable fundraising eff orts for DAA throughout 2021 too! General manager Gary Cook said: “We have a wonderful community of owners and holidaymakers that supported us with our fundraising eff orts, and we’re delighted with how much we managed to raise.”

We are always grateful when local businesses step in to support us in our time of need! Tool Care Hire were able to off er us a scissor lift to help fi x a lighting issue at our warehouse in Exeter, not only on the day we needed it but they also off ered us the cheapest quote AND a charity discount. Thanks to everyone at Tool Care, our warehouse is no longer in darkness!

It’s really great that businesses across the county recognise our need for their help and continue to give generously. A lovely donation of £2,500 was recently received from Harpers Feed who wanted to support two local charities close to their heart. With COVID-19 damaging fundraising across the county, they wanted to give something back to help future patients in 2021.