WARWICKSHIRE & NORTHAMPTONSHIRE AIR AMBULANCE CHARITY NIGHT

Saturday 22nd June 2013- 5pm Onwards

For the fifth concetucitive year we are happy to be running our annual Charity night again, to help raise money for the WNAA (Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance)

It will be held on Saturday 22nd June 2013 and will start at 5pm.

The event will be run to our popular Grand Prix event. Every driver will have 5 laps of practice, followed by 5 races of 8 Laps, with the top 6 drivers progressing into the Grand Final.

Depending on the number of entrants, there may also be an additional Ladies Final for the top six racers as well.

The cost of the Charity GP night is £35 per person, with £10 from each driver going towards the Air Ambulance.

During the Event all race winners will pull out a raffle ticket, for a lucky person who will win a prize after each race, along with an Auction at the end of the evenings racing.

We hope to also have the BBQ set up again with food being sold during the evening to go towards our goal of raising as much money as possible.

If you can help in anyway, through either a prize or a donation please get in touch on 01926 833444

Item	Donated By
£235 voucher	Venture Photography
Family Pass	Hatton Country Farm
2 x Complimentry Tickets	Warwick Castle
2x Adult Tickets	Twinlakes Family Theme Park
Sunday Lunch for 4	Coombe Abbey
£10 Gift Voucher	Aubrey Allen
Tobogganing Voucher for 2	Snowdome
£30 voucher	Posh Hairdressing
2x Cinema Tickets	Spa Centre
2x Bottles of Wine	Tesco's

If you can help us by donating a Raffle or Auction prize for the event we will extremely greatful. You can contact us on 01926 833444 if you want to get in touch

Item	Donated By
Race Weekend tickets(BTCC or BSB)	Silverstone Circuit
18 Hole golf day	Stoneleigh Deer Park
Signed shirt from current Caterham F1 drivers	Caterham F1
Half-Day Kart training course	Protrain Racing
Signed Cap from Formula 1 driver, Nico Rosberg	Mercedes AMG F1

If you can help us by donating a Raffle or Auction prize for the event we will extremely greatful. You can contact us on 01926 833444 if you want to get in touch

Please find below all the companies that have kindly donated prizes, and supporting our Charity night evening.

We have linked everyone's website where applicable on their names so you can view them and their products.

Sponsors	Follow them on Twitter
Venture Photography	@VenturePhoto
Hatton Country Farm
Warwick Castle	@WarwickCastle
Twinlakes Family Theme Park
Coombe Abbey
Aubrey Allen	@AubreyAllen
Snowdome	@SnowDomeTam
Posh Hairdressing
Spa Centre	@SpaCentre
Tesco's
Silverston Circuit	@SilverstoneUK
Stoneleigh Deer Park	@StoneleighGolf
Caterham F1	@MyCaterhamF1
Protrain Racing	@ProtrainRacing
MK Racewear	@MKRacewearUK
AMG Mercedes GP	@MercedesAMGF1

 

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About the Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance

Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance (WNAA) was established in 2003 and exists to provide a HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service) to the counties of Warwickshire, Northamptonshire and the Milton Keynes area. Our service does not simply transport patients to the nearest hospital. Our service routinely carries senior Doctors and Consultants to the scene of incidents in just minutes, providing lifesaving treatment and medication at the scene and en-route to hospital. Our Air Ambulance takes the hospital to the patient, providing the best possible chance of a full recovery.

Fact File
WNAA is one of very few services outside London to routinely carry a Doctor on board. Our primary response area is the 2000 square miles of Coventry, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Milton Keynes and some of the key border areas like Market Harborough, Banbury and Solihull. We also help out our neighbors under a mutual aid agreement in Birmingham, the West Midlands, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Leicestershire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.
The service has 15 Doctors, 15 Paramedics & 6 Pilots who service a population of around 1.2 million people. Based at Coventry Airport, in the five years it has been operating, it has flown over 7000 missions. With an ever-increasing callout rate of between 120 and 150 per month, WNAA is the busiest air ambulance in the UK.

No Government or National Lottery Funding!
WNAA is a registered charity and relies totally on public donations, fund-raising activities and sponsorship. The average cost per mission is around £1400 and the annual basic running cost of the service is over £1.7 million. Currently only able to operate in daylight hours due to the restrictive leasing costs of flying at night, WNAA aims to become the first service in the UK to operate 24 hours per day.
It is your local air ambulance, please support it.

Report from our Event on Friday 22nd June (£2000 + Raised from the evening)

After months of planning, the yearly Charity Grand Prix event at Mr Karting in aid of the Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance, took place on Friday 22nd June. With a fantastic 57 drivers signed on to race, along with 45 raffle prizes and 14 Auction Items up for grabs, it was all set for a great evenings entertainment.
One of the unique features of previous charity events, and was the same with this years, is the variety of drivers competing to have some fun and raise some money for a very worthy cause.  We had some drivers taking part in their first ever race event right through to experienced karters who race on a national basis. We also had no less than 9 drivers who had placed in the top three of our Junior Open GP Championships final standings, from previous years.

Due to the number of drivers competing, the drivers were given an option of doing our standard Grand Prix format, or doing 4 x 10 laps races instead, and the latter format was decided to be used, which meant we would be running 38 heats to decide the top drivers to compete for the glory of the podium.

With the racing getting underway after a series of practice laps for every driver to familiarise themselves with the karts and track, the racing got underway with some competitive racing throughout the heats, although there was the odd occasion where the competitive spirit took over and the drivers were subsequently penalised with a point deduction.

After the heats of the evenings racing were completed, we ran two finals with six drivers in each to finish the driving element of the evening’s event.  The first final to run was the ‘Pro’ Final, where the top six drivers who where either current Junior Open  GP drivers, Ex Junior GP Champions and Outdoor karters (TKM, Rotax etc). The second final (B final) was for the first six drivers who do not race outdoors and who have not raced in the Junior Open GP this season.

The Results are as follows:

‘Pro’ Final:

Start Order	Pst.	Finish Order
Spencer Olds	1	Spencer Olds
Jack Dex	2	Jack Dex
William Shaw	3	Tom Gardner
Tom Gardner	4	Craig Johnson
Chris Gould	5	Chris Gould
Craig Johnson	6	William Shaw

‘B’ Final:

Start Order	Pst.	Finish Order
Ian Haynes	1	Ian Haynes
Charlie Hanson	2	Charlie Hanson
Joe Jones	3	Joe Jones
Mark Harrison	4	Charlie Martin
Jonny Turner	5	Mark Harrison
Charlie Martin	6	Jonny Turner

 

After the racing had finished, we carried out the presentation for the trophy winners including a special award for the ‘Worst driver of the evening’, which was suggested to be given to Vivek Chawda by his kind work colleagues! After this we carried out the auction for the items that were available to 'buy' and the lucky winners from our 45 prize raffle collection, claimed their prize. 

We will be totaling the final amount over the next few days, and we will announce the amount of money raised as soon as possible.

We would finally like to thank everyone who has assisted us in making this years event a great success, including all the generous people who have donated items for the Raffle/Auction, everyone who sold raffle tickets (especially Harvey Smith who sold over £100 worth of tickets by himself), all the staff, their friends and family members who assisted us, and finally all the drivers who took part in the event in the event.

Thank you,