Appeal for crash tragedy survivor
Paramedics from the Yorkshire Air Ambulance Service have launched a fundraising appeal for an eight-year-old boy from South Tyneside who survived a crash in which four members of his family died.
Paula Marie Gilbert, 29, her partner Neil Jex, 37, and sons Tristan, three, and Kaiden Gilbert, seven months, died in Saturday's accident.
Macauley Gilbert was airlifted from the scene on the A1 near Catterick badly injured but was in a stable condition in hospital on Monday . Macauley was airlifted to James Cook University Hospital, on Teesside.
Martin Eede, Yorkshire Air Ambulance chief executive said "
It's not often that something touches the paramedics the way this has " The Air ambulance crew gave the stricken youngster a teddy bear for comfort and he is still clutching it tightly in hospital and refusing to let go.
This is the first time the Yorkshire Air Ambulance Service have launched such an appeal.
Sgt John Lumbard, of North Yorkshire Police, said: "Two families have been totally devastated by this tragic road collision which has taken the lives of two parents and their two young children."A third child is in hospital after undergoing surgery and has other family members with him.
"But it's a miracle that he has survived at all.
"He is going to need an awful lot of support to get through this."
You can make a donation, a lot or a little as it all counts, on the Macauley appeal website.
The guys from the Yorkshire Air Ambulance also deserve a donation to keep them aloft. Donations can be made to their service fund through through their own website
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Almost £11,000 raised by this appeal, which originally only had a target of £1000 , so its great thats its gone well over target and shows that people do really care.
The Yorkshire Air Ambulance Service is also a good cause , those guys put themselves at risk to save others, they are entirely dependent on funding and all the money they raise goes to keeping the lifesaving team aloft not towards bureaucracy.
I am also definitely looking at being more selective in my giving to charity, not simply donating to major charities that always seem to be taking without giving anything back ( the networking culture within MH charities like the Comic Relief backed £750,000 MH national service user network is a case in point ) but giving in a targetted and meaningful way to local and national good causes whose funds can be actually SEEN to be put to good effect.
This is ironic. A charity doing a useful job but the Chief Executive is Martin Ede who was the CE of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship (now Rethink) at the time I was a trustee of that major charity. Ede took "voluntary redundancy" from the charity that got into financial difficulties during his time (and mine). The charity solved the problem by axing jobs and services.
Rosemary,
I can see why you are sceptical. Such is the way hierarchies can work...however, I think this is a genuine cause and as long as the money gets to Macauley (via remaining members of his family) then it gets my vote. More so than some of the dubious stuff that MH Charities seem to be being funded for.
I also have to say that iffy CEO's, and senior level management, only get away with questionable things because there are so few people paying attention to and challenging what they do.
Mandy
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