BGS Charity of the year 2001/2 - “The Thames Valley And Chiltern Air Ambulance Trust” receives £2645.27.

Last year's charity for Burnham Grammar School was “The Thames Valley And Chiltern Air Ambulance Trust”.

The trust was launched in June of 1999 and provides a life saving service for the Thames Valley area covering Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire. We managed to actually visit the air ambulance base at White Waltham near Maidenhead.

The cheque that we donated was for the amazing sum of £2645.27, and was handed over to Stevie Horton- The Director Of Fundraising for the trust.
The money was raised in a number of different ways that included numerous tog days and the annual BGS “Stars In Their Eyes” competition.
The money that was raised turned out to be the equivalent of saving five individuals lives (whether they would be adults or children); £500 per helicopter “mission” and £100 for fuel, and there can even be up to six or seven flights per day.

Very luckily we also had on hand St Tony Welch and Teresa Covey who is the Civilian Duty Officer Of Thames Valley Police. The school in conjunction with The Thames Valley Police also collected used/old phones to be donated for extra money towards the service.

Two pupils even had the chance to get in the helicopter as it arrived back from an emergency call out just in time to greet us and was no sooner on its way to another life saving emergency.

The charity is a very worthwhile cause and last year a BGS student even needed its services due to a severe accident in rugby match.
We wish all the success to the air ambulance and its services and hope that our raised funds will benefit to save many more lives.

For the year 2002/3 BGS are supporting Breast Cancer, and in particular our local centre in Windsor known as The Parapet.

We are also supporting the Jeans for Genes Day. Read more