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About the event

Myself and my Partner are Trekking the Length of the United Kingdom 1100 miles setting off Thursday 1st of June 2017,in aid of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. This challenge is going to be like no other. You can follow us along our way pics and Videos on our just giving page. We are estimating a trek time of around 90 days. Yorkshire Air Ambulance saves lives every single day and one day..you never know they might just save yours. Thank you all very much and we will be keeping you all updated every step of the way.

Please do support us both going forward in which ever way you can! This really is going to be something quite special.

If anyone wants to join us on this trek please do get in contact we would welcome anyone who wants to get involved and really face a challenge of a life time. This will be trekking at its rawest form, no niceties just the basics! mostly wild camping!

Click the link below and read our story!.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Christian-Drysdale

Let the training commence!!

Why should you sponsor?

We need your help! we need equipment and sponcership for this wonderful charity which saves lives on a daily basis. They cannot operate without us!! Here are some facts about the YAA. 

About the Yorkshire Air Ambulance

The Yorkshire Air Ambulance is an independent charity providing a life saving rapid response emergency service to 5 million people across the whole of Yorkshire. The service is operational seven days a week, 365 days a year. The Charity currently attend over 1,000 missions a year, an average of 3 incidents every single day. Last year they treated 1067 patients at scene and carried 599 of those to hospital for emergency treatment.

The YAA currently operates two helicopters – one based at Nostell Air Support Unit, near Wakefield and the other at RAF Topcliffe, near Thirsk.

To keep both of Yorkshire's Air Ambulances maintained and in the air, the YAA needs to raise £12,000 every single day, which is the equivalent of £4.4m a year. The generosity that they receive really is the life blood of the Charity.

The charity was set up in 2000 and with the addition of the second air ambulance in October 2007, the YAA now operate our own Dedicated Air Desk for rapid dispatch of their helicopters to an incident. The swift medical interventions provided by their air ambulance crews have a major impact on a patient's chance of survival and subsequent quality of life.

In September 2016, the Charity took delivery delivery of a new state-of-the-art Airbus H145 H2 helicopter. A second H145 will follow in December 2016 and these new helicopters will replace their current ageing fleet. The latest generation aircraft has a larger cabin and will give paramedics a much more modern medical fit-out to treat and transport often critically injured patients. Replacing the current fleet will ensure the continuation of a state-of-the-art air ambulance service for the people of Yorkshire for the next 25 years.

* YAA is an independent Charity which needs to raise £12,000 every single day to keep both of Yorkshire’s air ambulances in the air and maintained. This is equivalent to £4.4million each year.

* The YAA provides a life saving rapid response emergency service to 5 million people across 4 million acres of Yorkshire.

* The YAA will soon be retiring helicopters G-SASH and G-CEMS. They operate from Nostell Priory near Wakefield and RAF Topcliffe near Thirsk. They will be replaced by two new state-of-the-art Airbus H145 H2 helicopters, G-YAAC and G-YOAA.

* The service is operational 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

* Patients are transferred to the nearest major trauma centre, flying at speeds of up to 160 mph.

* The Yorkshire Air Ambulance paramedics are seconded by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

* The Yorkshire Air Ambulance are currently starring in the UKTV series ‘Emergency ER’ which is broadcast on ‘Really’ on Monday evenings at 10pm. The series will run for 15 weeks from Monday 26th September.

* The YAA currently attend over 1,000 missions a year, an average of 3 incidents every single day.

* To date over 7,000 patients have been carried to relevant treatment centres, often for life-saving treatment.

Please help and sponcor us as much as possible. WE REALLY NEED YOUR HELP!

Christian Drysdale

Myself (Christian) and Hannah are 22 and 25 years old. I will be 26 when the trekk commenses. I am an x patient of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance and Hannahs father Cornal Andrew Pullan was Air Lifted from the River Tees nearly 4 years ago but unfortunetly died. We are strong interesting adventourous people with a passion to really make a differnece. We like to live life on the wild side and love to laugh and be free spirits in all sences. 

Myself and my Partner are Trekking the Length of the United Kingdom 1100miles setting off Thursday 1st of June 2017,in aid of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. This challenge is going to be like no other. You can follow us along our way pics and Videos on our just giving page. We are estimating a trek time of around 90 days. Yorkshire Air Ambulance saves lives every single day and one day..you never know they might just save yours. Thank you all very much and we will be keeping you all updated every step of the way.

Please do support us both going forward in which ever way you can! This really is going to be something quite special.

If anyone wants to join us on this trek please do get in contact we would welcome anyone who wants to get involved and really face a challenge of a life time. This will be trekking at its rawest form, no niceties just the basics! mostly wild camping!

Click the link below and read our story!.

 

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