Cleckheaton medical equipment manufacturer
Ferno has been honoured with a Corporate Supporters Award from Yorkshire
Air Ambulance at their annual Recognition Awards.
Boss Jon Ellis has led the way with his charity
work raising over £20,000 in four years by cycling a total distance of
1,200 miles with Huddersfield football club’s ‘Pedal for Pounds’ events.
The company adopted YAA as its chosen charity for their 40th
anniversary after previously donating medical equipment for the
charity’s helicopters.
Employees have responded by nearly
matching Jon’s total of £20,000 through their own money making ideas
such as recycling clothes and footwear, holding home-made cake sales and
having monthly casual dress days.
Jon, 46, said: “When you’re
cycling through the wind and rain I just think of all the stories I’ve
heard about people who have been rescued by the air ambulance and that
really drives me on.
“The Yorkshire Air Ambulance is saving
lives every day and is such a brilliant charity that I encouraged
everyone to try and match whatever I could raise.”
The charity
exists solely on donations and requires almost £10,000 a day, or £3.6
million a year, in order to provide emergency helicopter response all
over Yorkshire.
The awards were held at Aspire in Leeds and were hosted by television presenter and charity patron Gaynor Barnes.
Picture: AWARD WINNER Ferno managing director Jon Ellis with Gary
Saunders, sales and marketing director of SICL which sponsored the
award.
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