Air Ambulance Week fell on 9th – 15th September 2024 and Essex and Herts Air Ambulance (EHAAT), asked their supporters to CHOOSE A COLOUR, RAISE MONEY, and SAVE LIVES! Did you know that EHAAT are not part of the NHS, or that it costs £2,800 for each mission EHAAT undertake? The average monthly operational costs for EHAAT are a huge £1,000,000! There is limited government funding and so as a charity, rely on donations. We are grateful for this life saving organisation and as a team are very happy to get involved as much as we can.
As charity partners of EHAAT, we chose a side, …a colour, either Red or Yellow to match the Air Ambulance helicopters. In exchange for a donation, we collected, baked, borrowed and bought, red or yellow coloured sweets and treats to offer to other colleagues. We turned our London office Red and our Essex office Yellow for our competition, Go Red Go Yellow!
We invited our colleagues and neighbours to come along and help themselves to treats and if they would like to leave a donation all the better. From home-made Victoria sponge covered in fresh cream and strawberries, red doughnuts, and red velvet cake, to lemon drizzle, packets of quavers and lemon Fanta (…other brands are available!) there were many treats in both colours.
The yellow team dressed in yellow, one of them even came in as a minion! …here’s the pictures!
The red team sported red jumpers, accessories, socks, fingernails and dresses.
In the red office we played ‘on theme’ songs like Raspberry Beret, 99 Red Balloons, Little Red Corvette, Red Red Wine, and more, in yellow they listened to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Yellow Submarine, Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and don’t forget, of course, Yellow by Coldplay.
The offices all enjoyed a sweet pick me up in the afternoon and we talked about Air Ambulance to the new people we met. We love that we have contributed to sharing the excellent work the Essex and Herts Air Ambulance do each and every day, getting involved with the Go Red and Go Yellow competition was good fun and a colourful way to have fun in the office. Bring some colour into your life next National Air Ambulance Week in any way you can.