On 10/03/2013 10:13, The Medway Handyman wrote:
On 08/03/2013 20:25, dennis@home wrote:
On 08/03/2013 11:26, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Fri, 8 Mar 2013 10:40:59 -0000, tim..... wrote:

Thing was, IIRC, he was collecting for something I actually might have
contributed to, under other circumstances. Hey-ho.

Except that you wouldn't have been contributing in any useful sense.
90% if it goes into his pocket

Or the pocket of the company that has been engaged to pay people to go
round knocking on doors...

The only charity that gets any money out of me is the Great North Air
Ambulance via their lottery, I might win something or I might need their
services and I find it disgusting that all the Air Ambulance Services
are
not funded from central government via the NHS or what ever.


The government does fund helicopters where they actually save lives.
Like mountain rescue by the RAF, etc.

The LAS HEMS helicopter is funded by Guvmint.

However the helicopter air ambulances probably don't save any lives.
If you think about it they are always secondary units to arrive and the
paramedics that are already at the sceen have already done the work to
stabilise the patient before the helicopter is even scrambled.

The Denboi idiot strikes again. Helicopters have two useful functions,
1) being that they can get to remote or difficult areas faster and 2)
that they can get the patient to hospital faster.

3) They can transport patients with back or neck injuries without the
bumps of road transport. Although you could consider that part of 2 by
having an ambulance drive at a crawl.

SteveW