Recycle the Island 2010

Registration is now open for Recycle the Island 2010! If you would like to enter as an individual or a team please go to http://www.hiow-airambulance.org.uk/post.cfm/recycle-the-island-2010#eventRegistration and fill in your details, last year was a fantastic, exciting and more importantly SUNNY day! Lets hope for the same this year. There are two routes, the friendly 15 mile route, which I am sure you will see the Bag It Up team undertaking again this year or the 50 mile route for those sporty people whom would like a challenge! Sponsorship will be running again this year on Just Giving so please do take the plunge and sign up - you'll be raising money for a fantastic cause!

Latest fundraising total - £ 1,826,474.31

We have now raised over £1.8m for our charity partners ;-)

Recycle the Island 2010 - 25th September

PLEASE NOTE THE DATE FOR THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED TO SATURDAY THE 25th

This Highly popular event is back! A day of cycling 15 or 50 miles around the Isle of Wight all in aid of the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance. Registration is just £10 to cover all costs, you can sign up and start fundraising now! Please go to http://www.bagitup.org.uk/upcoming-event-article.php?rd=141 for further information and to register through the Air Ambulance website. Over £3000 was raised last year so lets try and top that this year!

Bag It Up Ltd are LGC awards 2010 winners!

Fantastic News!!! We have won the LGC community involvement award 2010 in partnership with Southampton City Council. A great achievement and big thumbs up for our recycling scheme for the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance. The award celebrates the work undertaken to manage student waste over the summer in Polygon (an inner city area of Southampton) and the ongoing monitoring and management of waste/enviro crime, to help keep the area clean and green. We were really pleased to hear the judges say 'we had won the award by a mile'.

Southampton City Council have allowed us to site Circa 50 clothing banks in the city since our scheme began as well as working with us on numerous promotional days, and recycling initiatives. Recycling funds have now paid for a third of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulances missions!

We want to keep raising more and more funds for our charity partners and working with councils is an integral way of doing so – thank you to all the councils that have supported Bag It Up and our charities.

If you want to find out where your nearest bank is please go to www.bagitup.org.uk or if you are a council who would be interested in finding more about our charity schemes and fundraising partnerships please email info@bagitup.org.uk

Wendy Eldridge

Air Ambulance Doorstep Collections...

BAG IT UP LTD, and our charity partners,
DO NOT currently provide a doorstep textile collection service!

Please read the following if you believe you are donating your used clothes via a doorstep collection to one of our many charity partners:

We have been made aware that people in the Thames Valley and Chilterns Air Ambulance region have received the above leaflet through their doors.  Please be aware that the company distributing these leaflets have NO affiliation with the Thames Valley and Chilterns Air Ambulance.

If you closely read their web site http://www.airambulanceservice.org.uk/ you'll find NO references to who the raised funds go to, other than (as the leaflet states) - "our organisation and many people"

To our knowledge,the company is NOT a registered charity,  nor does it appear to be associated with any registered charities.


The company name stated on their web site as being a 'Trading Partner' - D & P Textiles Ltd, is not a registered company at companies house, although there is a similarly named company - D & P Textile Company Ltd - http://www.dandptextile.co.uk/ - based in Solihul in the West Midlands.  There is nothing on D & P Textile Company Ltd's web site that references either the Air Ambulance Service Trading Company Ltd, or their association with any charitable organisation.


The Air Ambulance Service Trading Company Ltd web site can also be accessed by http://www.saintchristopher.org.uk/, which we wonder if it is linked to the web site http://www.stchristophersassistance.com, as both sites appear to be offering similar services????


*IF* there is an link between these 2 organisations, and it is an *IF* - the stated company name "St Christophers Assistance Group" is not listed as either a limited company or as a sole trader - then here is some information that makes interesting reading : http://www.pprune.org/biz-jets-ag-flying-ga-etc/315913-richard-sage.html


As stated at the beginning of the post, we nor our charity partners currently offer a doorstep collection service for recyclable textiles - if you wish to donate to one of our charity partners, please put your used textiles into one of our recycling banks.

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£ 1,701,292.43 - So Far........

Figures in from Janauary, and we have now raised over £1.7m for our charity partners since 2005.