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A group from The Old Bush Inn, Bilston have raised money for the Air Ambulance.
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25/01/2025
A group from The Old Bush Inn, Bilston have raised money for the Air Ambulance.
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Okay Steve, so you're chief fundraiser here at the Old Bush, just explain what happened, what you did.
00:05
So like, we've got a five o'clock club, Monday to Friday, we all come in for a drink, all local
00:13
businessmen, regulars, and that's everybody here behind you as well, yeah, and then we just decided
00:19
we'd like to do something a bit useful for the community, so we talked about various options,
00:24
yeah, and then we all decided as a group that it would be the West Midlands Air Ambulance,
00:28
fantastic, because to be honest with you, in our opinion it goes straight to source,
00:33
so they get the money, it doesn't get handled by anybody else, plus the fact without the air
00:39
ambulance, well you get stuck on a side of a mountain with a broken leg, you ain't going
00:43
nowhere, no absolutely, so people behind me, they all said right we can give you this, so
00:49
like the Fashions Factory and Dean and Sarah, they all said Pandora ring, 100 quid, brilliant,
00:56
I put something in from my company, picked up my meat box, yeah, and then just people started
01:01
giving bottles of wine, whiskey, these lovely chocolate baskets, it's brilliant isn't it,
01:06
how everybody kind of pulls in and puts together, so within six weeks of intense mugging, I mean
01:12
collecting, yeah, we got the sum that you can see on the cheque, fantastic, it's a great amount as
01:16
well, every single person who you can see here played a major part, brilliant, and Kay, you're
01:22
from the Air Ambulance, how do you feel to receive this money, what's it mean to the Air Ambulance?
01:27
I'm so so proud of Steve and all these guys that are standing here, it's absolutely amazing,
01:31
I'm the fundraising executive for the West Midlands, we are your Air Ambulance at the
01:36
heart of England, and every single penny goes towards saving lives, and we can't
01:40
forget the generosity of you guys, so a massive massive thank you.
01:44
Fantastic, wonderful, well done everybody, great achievement.
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