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Bristol Airport raise more than £21,000 for Great Western Air Ambulance Charity with a golf day

Airport contractors formed teams to raise funds for Air Ambulance charity

Bristol Airport recently held a golf day, raising more than £21,000 for its charity of the year, the Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC).

The fundraising day saw 80 players, from many of the contractors at the Airport, form 20 different teams to enjoy the 18-hole course at The Kendleshire golf club in South Gloucestershire. The teams braved the wet and windy weather ensuring a full turn out for such a deserving cause.

Mike Holt, Director for Lancer Scott, was part of the team who arranged the golf day along with Andrew Goodenough, Infrastructure Director for Bristol Airport.

The airport’s business partners, who are involved with the airport’s new multi-storey car park and Public Transport Interchange, paid to take part in the event. They were also able to help raise further funds by purchasing Mulligans (a second chance shot), buying raffle tickets, bidding for auction items and having a go at beating professional golfer Joe Harvey.

GWAAC respond to people in urgent need of critical care. They perform procedures normally only seen inside a hospital emergency department, for patients whose survival relies on receiving that treatment right there at the scene.

Their critical care doctors, advanced practitioners and specialist paramedics treat patients at the scene providing complex interventions to give them the best chance of a positive outcome 365 days of the year and in some of the most challenging environments across Gloucestershire, Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset, and parts of Wiltshire.

The £21,000 raised at the event will help this team save more local lives.

Andrew Goodenough, Infrastructure Director, Bristol Airport said: “The golf day was such a success, and it was only possible through the support from our business partners and suppliers in raising such an incredible amount of money on the day.

“The Bristol Airport team voted for GWAAC as our charity partnership at the beginning of the year and it is the continued support, commitment and the generosity of our customers and staff which continues to raise money for such a worthwhile local charity.”

Anna Perry, CEO of the Great Western Air Ambulance Charity, said: “I am thrilled that Bristol Airport has extended its charity partnership with GWAAC. Bristol Airport Staff and business partners are going above and beyond to find ways to support us; the golf day is a perfect example of this.

“The incredible £21,000 raised could help us save nine lives in our region; that’s nine families kept together – something we will be forever grateful for.”

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