Welcome to the Essex

& Herts Air Ambulance Challenge!

The aim of this challenge is to raise awareness of Essex & Herts Air Ambulance (EHAAT) and to raise vital funds towards keeping the Charity operational. On completing the challenge, please order your Challenge Badges on the order form at the back of this resource. All proceeds from badge sales will go towards Essex & Herts Air Ambulance.

The EHAAT challenge is divided into four sections:

1. Essex & Herts Air Ambulance2. Helicopters3. Air4. Fun Fundraising

To complete the challenge you must complete a minimum of one activity for each section. This challenge is for all ages so there are a variety of activities to reflect this. Have fun discussing with your group which tasks to choose.

Remember to publicise your Fun Fundraising and send money raised to:Essex & Herts Air Ambulance, The Business Centre, Earls Colne Business Park, Earls Colne, Colchester, Essex CO6 2NS.

**For items followed by an asterix you will find additional resources attached.**

1. Essex & Herts Air Ambulance

An Air Ambulance is very different to a land ambulance. This section is all about Essex & Herts Air Ambulance, Paramedics and First Aid. You must complete a minimum of one activity from this section.

**For items followed by an asterix you will find additional resources attached.**

� ‘Equipment Game’ – play the game to quiz your members about the differences between land and air ambulances.*

� Learn how to make an emergency call.

� Learn how to take a pulse.

� Learn CPR.

� Earn a First Aid Badge or Certificate.

� Complete the Wordsearch (level 1 and 2).*

� The Price is Right! Can you guess how much, with the ‘label costs game’?*

� Scenarios – act out an accident scenario for other members of your group to attend to.

� Teddy bears – try out your bandaging skills on a teddy or make a stretcher for a cuddly toy and have a stretcher race – if teddy falls off, you’ll have to start again!

2. Helicopter

This section of the challenge looks at all different types of helicopter. You must complete a minimum of one activity from this section.

� Find some natural helicopters – search for sycamore seeds. Try dropping them. Can you count how many times they twirl? Which fly better, double or single seeds?

� Make your own helicopter using craft materials. There are some good ideas at these websites: http://www.first-school.ws/activities/crafts/transportation/helicopter.htm http://www.primaryscience.ie/media/pdfs/col/paper_helicopters.pdf http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/family/paper-helicopters.htm

� Label the Helicopter*

� The Essex & Herts Air Ambulance is red and yellow. Design your own helicopter livery.

� Make your own Whirly Bird.*

� Watch a helicopter land/take off.

� How does a helicopter work? Do some research and share your findings.

� Build an electronic circuit to launch a helicopter.

� Visit the Essex & Herts Air Ambulance at one of our events and sit inside – make sure you take a photo!

� Go on a helicopter ride – this could be at a fairground or theme park or, if you’re really lucky, on a real helicopter.

� Colour in a picture of the Essex & Herts Air Ambulance.*

**For items followed by an asterix you will find additional resources attached.**

3. Air

This section of the challenge looks at the air around us as well as encouraging groups to air their findings about EHAAT in the local media. You must complete a minimum of one activity from this section.

� What is air made of? Find out about what surrounds us.

� Malteser games – Maltesers are full of little air bubbles - using a straw can you transfer Maltesers from one plate to another? This could be done as a relay race to make it really tricky. Can you keep a Malteser in the air by blowing through a straw?

� Make a balloon rocket.

� Fresh Air – hold a meeting outdoors. Perhaps try twirling like rotor blades on a roundabout or flying through the air on a swing at your local park.

� Use your air to blow bubbles. Does the shape/size of your bubble wand affect the shape/size of the bubbles? Experiment with different objects to see which will make a bubble (funnels and cut off plastic bottle necks make good blowers, but what about buttons or cotton reels?).

� Get on air – record a jingle about the work of EHAAT. See if you can get it played on your local radio station.

� Find out 5 facts about EHAAT and present your findings: make a poster to display at school or your meeting place, give a talk to your group, prepare a Powerpoint presentation etc

� Ask your friends and family to “like” the EHAAT Facebook page.

� Invite an Asthma nurse to visit your group. Perhaps you can measure your peak flow and see who has the most puff!

� Air your news. Write an article about what you’re doing for EHAAT using the ‘PR Instructions’* and ‘PR Template’*. Send it to your local newspapers/parish magazine/radio station. (Leaders can do this alternatively).

� Try and get interviewed by a local news team about your fundraising – newspapers/parish magazine/radio station.

� Advertise your fundraising for EHAAT on a local “What’s on Guide” or Social Media site – Remember to follow your organisations guidelines for safe internet use.

REMEMBER! Send in copies of any of your media successes to aalisha.gauchan@ehaat.org

**For items followed by an asterix you will find additional resources attached.**

4. Fun Fundraising

Essex & Herts Air Ambulance can only keep going if the running costs of £500,000 a month are met. It is funded purely on donations so choose a fun fundraising activity to help keep your Air Ambulance flying. The ways to donate are overleaf.

Perhaps you would like to join with other units and set a sky-high fundraising target. For reaching the following targets you could ask to arrange the following visits: £100 - Visit from an Essex & Herts Air Ambulance volunteer. £250+ - Visit one of the Essex & Herts Air Ambulance air bases in either Earls Colne or North Weald (Please note, you will have to provide your own transport to and from the air base.)

Some fundraising ideas include:

� Take part in the A Very British Afternoon Tea event. See EHAAT website for details.

� Choose whether to ‘Go Red’ or ‘Go Yellow’ during National Air Ambulance week in the last week of September. Pick a colour and wear it, bake it, make it or challenge it! See EHAAT website for details.

� Hold a sponsored event of your choice.

� Go bag packing at a local supermarket. Contact EHAAT to borrow collecting tins/buckets.

� Hold a bake sale – perhaps try decorating your cakes and cookies with red and yellow icing or even draw on helicopters with icing!

� Challenge each member to fill a money box with small change.* Collect the boxes together and make a helicopter picture or the EHAAT logo with the coins before counting them up.

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Donating your fun fundraising total

Once your group has completed the fun fundraising part of your Challenge and counted up your total, there are 2 ways you can get your amount to us and help keep us flying:

1. Via cheque donation

Please send your cheque made payable to ‘Essex & Herts Air Ambulance’. Our address is:Essex & Herts Air Ambulance, Flight House, The Business Centre, Earls Colne Business Park, Earls Colne, Colchester, Essex, CO6 2NS

2. Via online donation

Please visit the donation page of our website www.ehaat.org/donate.

Click the option ‘just once’ which allows you to pay a one-off amount and type in the total you have raised. Click ‘donate’

On the following page, please check your total is correct and click ‘Proceed to Checkout’.

Fill in your group’s details. Under the box which asks if you are donating to a specific fundraising initiative, please select ‘Challenge Badge’ from the drop-down menu.

If you have raised £100, a member of our fundraising team will be in touch to arrange your visit and talk from an Essex & Herts Air Ambulance Volunteer, should you want it.

If you have raised £250+, we will be in touch to discuss a visit to one of our Airbases, should you want it.

Thank you for your support, we can’t fly without you.

To order your Essex & Herts Air Ambulance Challenge Badges you can make an order online at:

www.ehaat.org/challengebadge

or by completing this form and returning it to us with a cheque made payable to ‘Essex & Herts Air Ambulance’. Our address is:

Essex & Herts Air Ambulance, Flight House, The Business Centre, Earls Colne Business Park, Earls Colne, Colchester, Essex, CO6 2NS

Name of organisation ________________________________________________________

Contact name ______________________________________________________________

Address ___________________________________________________________________

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Postcode _______________________ Contact number __________________________

Contact email address ________________________________________________________

Please include postage and packaging for the amount of badges being ordered:1-20 badges: £1.00 21-50 badges: £1.50 51-150 badges: £2.00151-200 badges: £2.50

Item Description Price Quantity Amount £

EHAAT Challenge Badge £1.50

P+P

Total £

Badge order form

For merchanidise including the following, please download our Challenge pack merchandise order form online at:

www.ehaat.org/challengebadge

Merchandise

Heli topper pencil £1.50

Mini fan£2.50

Coloured notepad£2.50

Light-up pen£2.00

Pen£1.50

Trolley coin keyring£2.00

Pin badge£2.00

Heli pencil sharpener£2.00

Pencil case (filled with jelly beans)£3.00

Exercises and additional resources mentioned in the Challenge pack

Wordsearch (Level 1)

Find the following words (they can go across or down):

Essex Air AmbulanceHerts Red YellowHelicopter Pilot DoctorParamedic Rotor Charity

Wordsearch (Level 2)

Find the following words (they may be horizontal, vertical or diagonal):

Essex Air AmbulanceHerts Doctor MissionHelicopter Paramedic CharityPilot Emergency SpeedRotor Accident Call sign

Helicopter Label Game

Tracker beam

Gear box

Nose

Tail

Engine

Tail rotor

Rotor blades

Helicopter Label Game

Essex & Herts Air Ambulance colouring inColour in your own Air Ambulance

Make your own whirly bird

Essex Air AmbulanceChallenge Donation BoxAssembly Instructions

 

 

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Using your scissors cut along the thick black line. Carefully cut a slot (E )Fold the dotted linesGlue tabs (A) and attach to the back of side ( 5 & 6 )repeat this process with all tabs (B & C ). Then attach (D) to side (4 ). 

Finally, take the box with you and collect donations from your family, school friends and teachers.  You can help Essex Air Ambulance to keep flying and saving lives!  Maybe come up with a clever idea like a £1 forfeit if someone forgets a household chore!

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Please note the above should ideally be mounted onto card or printed out on a heavier weight of paper.

Here’s how to construct your Essex Air Ambulance challenge donation box

You will need, a sharp pair of scissors, glue or double sided tape.

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Please note the donation box template should ideally be mounted onto card or printed out on a heavier paper.

Here’s how to construct your Challenge donation box

You will need a sharp pair of scissors, glue or double sided tape.

Essex & Herts Air Ambulance Challenge donation box:

Assembly instructions

Finally take the box with you and collect donations from your family, school friends and teachers. You can help Essex & Herts Air Ambulance to keep flying and saving lives!

Maybe come up with a clever idea like a £1 forfeit if someone forgets a household chore!

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are doing the Essex & Herts Air Ambulance Challenge

You can help support us and the Charity by

www.ehaat.orgCharity Number: 1108989

If we raise £100 we will have a talk all about how the Charity helps to save people’s lives!

If we raise £250 we get to visit the Air Base, meet the Air Crew and have a photo with the helicopter!

Full Name Sponsors Home Address Only needed if you are Gift Aiding your donation. Don’t give your work address if you are Gift Aiding your donation

Postcode Gift Aid (if taxpayer tick here*)

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Sponsorship Form

T 0345 2417 690 Essex & Herts Air Ambulance

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Name: _____________________________________________________________

Address: _____________________________________________________________

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I am raising money for Essex & Herts Air Ambulance

*If I have ticked the box ‘Gift Aid’ I confirm that I am a UK income or Capital Gains taxpayer. I have read this statement and want the Charity named to

reclaim tax on the donation detailed above, given on the date shown. I understand that if I pay less Income Tax / Capital Gains Tax in the current year

than the amount of Gift Aid claimed on all my donations it is my responsibility to pay the difference. I understand the Charity will reclaim 25p of tax in

every £1 that I have given.

Please ensure that when you are filling in your details you clearly give your full name, address and postcode.

Your Details

Full Name Sponsors Home Address Only needed if you are Gift Aiding your donation. Don’t give your work address if you are Gift Aiding your donation

Postcode Gift Aid (if taxpayer tick here*)

Amount due £

Date Collected

Mr Andrew Sample 123 The Avenue, Earls Colne Essex AN12 32XY £10.00 DD/MM/YY

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Thank you for supporting an Essex & Herts Air Ambulance. We Can’t Fly Without You

Registered Charity 1108989

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Date sent to EHAAT