Corporate sponsorship is of course vital if WNAA is to meet its £2 million fundraising target to extend its flying hours and life-saving service.

There are a great many ways that companies can become involved with WNAA, from sponsoring this website to repainting the entire helicopter in your organisation’s corporate colours and logo.

For more information on how your business can become a 'Life Supporter', please contact us on 08454 130999 or email: enquiries@wnaa.co.uk.

We are delighted to be supported year in year out by local businesses and we value each and every contribution. 

Local Businesses Support the WNAA

The Legal & Regulatory Compliance team from Barclaycard in Northampton

The Legal & Regulatory Compliance team from Barclaycard in Northampton  hosted a celebratory event at on 6 May to mark their fundraising achievements in 2009 for the  WNAA . At the beginning of 2009  the team decided to focus their community activity on  fundraising for WNAA and the team of approximately 45 colleagues embarked an ambitious target of raising  the funds to purchase a  new  state of the art defibrillator for their new helicopter. The money was raised through a number of initiatives including VIP prize draws and a sponsored tandem cycle ride from Barclaycard's Pavilion Drive office in Northampton to the WNAA   airfield at Coventry Airport. Mark Edwards, General Counsel  for Barclaycard , was delighted to present a cheque to Andy Williamson  for £12,500. Tracy Grunwell  presented the team with a certificate of thanks and a framed photograph of the defribrillator installed and in operation onboard the helicopter. 

The National Association of Estate Agents

Jo Payne Regional Fundraising Manager received a £500 cheque from James Macalister. (Treasurer of the Coventry & Warwickshire branch of the National Association of Estate Agents). The event was held on Tuesday 10 March 2009 at the Almanack, Abbey End, Kenilworth and is one of the regular meetings of the local Coventry & Warwickshire branch. 

The donation was raised at a branch dinner, with a charity collection afterwards, which was enthusiastically supported by the members and guests. £500 was also raised for the Snowball charity sponsored by the Coventry Telegraph; unfortunately they were not able to send a representative along to the cheque presentation.

Kilworth House Hotel

Kilworth House Hote set in the heart of the Leicestershire countryside close to the Warwickshire border adopted WNAA and DLRAA for 2008 and launched the ‘Heart of England Air Ambulance Appeal’

Throughout 2008 a series of events were organised to raise funds. The Kilworth Luncheon Club ladies were entertained by a number of well know famous faces, including Penny Smith, Carol Thatcher, Gyles Brandreth, Erin Boag & Christine Hamilton.

Two sponsored walks of 5km or 10km in Kilworth’s extensive grounds, a Golf day at Kilworth Springs and three Christmas Gala evenings rounded off a fantastic year of enthusiastic fundraising generously supported. Jo ,Fundraising Manager for Warwickshire, accepted a cheque for the fantastic amount of £70,131.30 and we would like to thank Mr Richard and Mrs Celia Mackay and all the Staff at the Hotel.

AEB is an international company, with its UK office in Warwick.

Ordinarily charitable donations are given globally; however this year, AEB wanted to donate to local charities in its home countries and amongst these, chose to support WNAA.

Their visit to the office re-enforced their choice and all 
enjoyed having a look around the helicopter, speaking
with the crew and hearing how their fantastic donation
of £3250 would help to fund life-saving missions.

Their visit to the office re-enforced their choice and all enjoyed having a look around the helicopter, speaking with the crew and hearing how their fantastic donation of £3250 would help to fund life-saving missions.

Barclaycard

The partnership that has been forged between WNAA and the Northampton Based Financial giant Barclaycard is truly fantastic. Barclaycard were one of the first major supporters of WNAA when it first began operations in October 2003 and the association has been strong ever since. However it is in the last two years that the partnership has really developed with the sterling efforts of Northamptonshire Fundraising Manager Tracy Grunwell and Barclaycards Community Affairs Manager Louise Ellington.

WNAA was awarded the top prize of £10,000 in its 2007 Northampton ‘Make a Wish’ campaign. WNAA were overwhelmed to receive this award and this started a great working relationship with Barclaycard and now many departments within Barclaycard have chosen to support the WNAA through individual fundraising efforts.

Last year, WNAA attended to a fatal car accident in which a Barclaycard colleague, Kelly Hone, was tragically killed. Kelly’s young son Keelan was in the car at the time of the accident and was rescued from the car by the WNAA. He was flown to hospital, where he made a full recovery. Kelly’s brother, Daniel MacHardie also works at Barclaycard in Northampton. He and other colleagues within Kelly’s department hold regular fund raising initiatives to support WNAA. Daniel and three other colleagues have also recently completed a cycle ride from London to Paris and whilst they are still recovering! raised over £25,000.

On 22nd October 2009, a Three Men, Three Ladies and a Bike took place. The following people from the Northampton branch of Barclaycard took part: Will Scott, Tony Corby, Andrew Bradbury, Cheryl Rice, Christine White and Kerry Power. Support was provided by Naomi Swanson and Paul Bedford.

£2000 was raised from the event.

The WNAA would like to acknowledge our thanks to Will Scott, Tony Corby, Andrew Bradbury, Cheryl Rice, Christine White, Kerry Power, Naomi Swanson, Paul Bedford, Tracy Slater and Gemma Traves.

The WNAA would also like to thank the wider LRC and CSM team, family and friends for their support and generous donations.

Hawes Signs
Hawes Signs in Northampton chose WNAA as their Charity for the Year 2007. Their fundraising activities included a car wash day, and a cake day, they also had a ‘swear box’ and many more creative ideas to raise funds. Tracy Grunwell, Regional Fundraising Manager said, ‘I would like to say a big thank you to everyone for all their support; they raised a staggering £2,882 for us, which will help us to continue to save lives’. 

Barclaycard Business 

In 2006, staff of the 'Financial Exceptions' department of Barclaycard Business in Northampton adopted WNAA as their charity for the year. Staff enjoyed competing against each other in a sports day, quiz night and ghost hunt for Halloween as well as carrying out a raffle, to raise a staggering £10,700 for WNAA. 

Satra Technology
Satra Technology in Kettering also adopted WNAA as their charity for the third year running. Around 70 staff took part in quiz nights, raffle draws, book sales, a Christmas Card Charity pledge, a World Cup Sweep Stake and many more activities to raise £2,250 to help keep us flying.

Coventry based company, ScriptSwitch, celebrated the achievement of a Queens Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2009 recently when HM Lord-Lieutenant of Warwickshire formally presented them with their award.

A corporate supporter of the charity, ScriptSwitch held a celebration lunch with a fundraising competition for guests to enter ‘Hook a Duck’, with donations going to WNAA.

In celebration of this fantastic achievement, ScriptSwitch invited staff, partners, suppliers and customers to join them at their Head Office. There was also attendance from a number of local dignitaries, including the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Coventry, the High Sheriff of Warwickshire, the Chairman of Warwickshire County Council and the Chairman of Warwick District Council.

One member of staff donated £600 challenging the Management team to match him, which they duly did making a wonderful donation of over £1,300 on the day together with regular donations the company have pledged throughout the year.

Jo Payne, Regional Fundraising Manager said "We are delighted to be able to be here today to celebrate with the staff of ScriptSwitch following their success. Their success during tough financial times highlights what can be achieved, and we’re delighted to be their chosen charity and to be working with them to maximise the potential from this partnership." 

The European Shoe Machinery Company Ltd
Iridium House,
4 Kings Court,
Kettering Parkway,
Kettering,
Northamptonshire,
NN15 6WJ

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ESM will donate 10% of the value of all new machinery sold between November and the 31st January