Air rescues all around Scotland
Seven call outs in the past week have seen Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance (SCAA) tasked to emergencies as far afield as Aberfeldy, Ayrshire, Mull and Rothesay.
The helicopter air ambulance flew to the aid of a motorcyclist seriously injured in an accident on a rural road near Blairgowrie.
SCAA paramedics worked with Scottish Ambulance Service colleagues and the Tayside Trauma Team before the patient was taken to hospital by land ambulance alongside TTT.
The crew also took to the air for an urgent transfer of a seriously ill patient from Rothesay to mainland care at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital at Glasgow.
Members and friends of the British Association of Ski Patrollers dined and danced the night away at Perth Racecourse recently and raised £6,000 for SCAA.
A Harvest Thanksgiving service collection at Blair Atholl and Strain churches gathered in £276 for SCAA.
And Collace Parish Church congregation added £20 to SCAA’s funds as a donation from the profits of their Harvest Thanksgiving Ceilidh.
Four days of fundraising at Blair Castle International Horse Trials saw SCAA trot home with nearly £17,000, while a golf day organised by Elder and Paton at Murrayshall chipped in a further £13,000 to the charity.
Blairgowrie and District Ladies Darts League hit the bullseye, raising £131 for SCAA at their recent ladies darts competition. Meanwhile, a Pitlochry woman ran five kilometres to raise £500 for the airborne life-savers.
Staff at SSE Clunie at Pitlochry held a staff raffle and donated £303 to SCAA.
And art lovers helped the recent Fortingall Art Exhibition organisers raise £724.31 for the charity.
Pitlochry Co-op staff and customers have been busy again on SCAA’s behalf.
A recent raffle allowed them to donate £1,581.89 to SCAA, while an in-store bucket collection added a further £560 to their on-going support.
Thanks also to the residents of Connachar Bank, Isla Road, Perth, who collected and donated £72 after hearing a talk on the work of the Perth Airport-based SCAA.
And a kind Perth lady has handed in £20 to support the charity’s work.
A Pitlochry woman sent SCAA a donation of £100 saying:“All strength to your vital work.”
A year of fundraising by the staff of TSB in Perth has ended with the presentation of £2,668.56 to SCAA.
Thanks again to Dunkeld resident Carol Gillespie who has donated a further £1,077.20 following her fourth annual Quiz Night in aid of SCAA.
The popular Green Welly Stop at Tyndrum continues to support SCAA through carrier bag levy donations and collecting cans. Their recent donations saw £223.69 from carrier bags and £101.22 from their collecting cans.
Other locally placed collecting cans spilling out their much-appreciated contents this week include those from: Ballinluig Post Office £32.43; Alyth Co-op £25.77; Delight Deli, Aberfeldy £55.93; Elder and Paton, Perth £42.81; Eric’s Sweets Van, Inveralmond Industrial Estate, Perth £60.82; Errol Bowling Club £51.54; Giacopazzi, Kinross £21.13; Mitchells Newsagents, Blairgowrie £30.04; Broxden Service Station £836.43; S and D Cura Newsagents, Bridge of Earn £38.56 and the Strawberry Shop, Scones of Lethendy £28.26.