Essex and Herts Air Ambulance
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Essex and Herts Air Ambulance was tasked with its first mission after settling into a new purpose-built base in North Weald yesterday (Wednesday, April 28).
The new base was completed in February before it opened for operations yesterday.
Essex and Herts Air Ambulance Trust s new base in North Weald, near Epping
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The team s first mission was to attend an incident in Bishop s Stortford after receiving a call for help from the East of England Ambulance Service.
Essex & Herts Air Ambulance s North Weald airbase
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Essex & Herts Air Ambulance Trust (EHAAT) raised nearly double its target in a 2021 charity appeal thanks to support from TV, stage and film actor Ray Winstone.
The charity aimed to raise £20,000 for a new airbase in North Weald, near Epping, asking supporters to buy a brick .
But after a video appeal featuring Ray Winstone, the charity raised nearly £40,000, selling over 700 bricks.
Ray Winstone, Essex & Herts Air Ambulance Trust s celebrity patron
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Pam Withrington of EHAAT said: The new airbase at North Weald will help secure the future of our life-saving service for the people of Essex and Hertfordshire for decades to come, and everyone who has who contributed to our Buy-a-Brick appeal will have played a part in that legacy.