Reach
Issue 7 2014
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Bikers Ride In to support
the Air Ambulance
New Chief Executive
for Fire Fighters Charity
The Ride-In is on Sunday,
17 August with start points in
London, Wellingborough and
Hinckley. The riders will converge
at Silverstone, then ride as one
long cavalcade with police
motorbike escorts.
“It really does create a massive
spectacle,” said Tracy. “Last year
we had more than 500 bikes,
which created a four-mile Ride
In. We get very generous support
from all types of bike groups
and hope to engage with the
attendees on the day, and with
well over 15,000 bikers attending
the Festival it’s something we
will continue to try and improve
and develop.”
To find out more, please visit
/
ridein
T
he Warwickshire and
Northamptonshire Air
Ambulance (WNAA), one
of Airwave’s chosen charities,
will have a police escort for
this year’s Ride In motorbike
cavalcade, heading for the
Brackley Festival of Motorcycling.
WNAA National Partnership
Manager Tracy Grunwell organised
the first Ride In last year, and is
determined that the 2014 event will
be even bigger and better.
Tracy told Reach: “I have been
supporting Brackley Festival of
Motorcycling for seven years but it
was only last year we decided to add
the Ride In. So many people were
riding in and I thought - let’s all ride-in
together and have some fun and get
to know each other at the same time -
and it worked!”
T
he Fire Fighters Charity,
one of Airwave’s chosen
charities and the UK’s
leading provider of support
and rehabilitation services for
the fire service community,
has appointed Dr Jill Tolfrey
MSc MCSP as its new Chief
Executive Officer.
Dr Tolfrey joined The Fire
Fighters Charity as its first
clinically qualified Director of
Operations in November 2010.
With a personal interest in
rehabilitation and re-ablement,
she has undertaken research into
living with long term conditions
and the experience of illness.
As a member of the UK
Rehabilitation Council in its
development form, Jill has pioneered
the Charity’s drive to reframe
its beneficiary services to develop
Charity-wide integrated services that
are re-ablement focussed.
Ken Seager, Chairman of the Board
of Trustees, said: “Jill’s doctoral
research background in personal
and professional development, along
with her clinical research in exercise
physiology and health psychology,
stands her in excellent stead to take
the helm of our Charity.”
The Fire Fighters Charity is the
leading support service for fire
fighters in the UK. Jill takes up the
CEO post following the retirement of
John Parry, who headed up The Fire
Fighters Charity during a three-year
tenure having served with a number
of fire brigades over a distinguished
thirty-year career.
Every year The Fire Fighters
Charity directly helps more than
4,500 people in the fire community
to be fitter, healthier and happier.
It costs more than £8m every year
to meet the varied physical and
psychological needs of the fire
and rescue community, and with
no government funding, the
Charity is completely reliant
upon donations from the general
public and fire community.
With Her Majesty The Queen
as its Royal Patron, The
Fire Fighters Charity works
to provide support and
rehabilitation services for
the fire and rescue
community. For more
information, please visit
RESCUE
RIDE IN
WE NEED YOU - AUGUST 17
TH
2014
email
call
08454 130 999
SIGN UP today!
theairambulanceservice.org.uk
/
ridein
SIGN UP
NOW
STARTING POINTS
Wellingborough
Triumph -
Silverstone
Circut
London
Ace Cafe -
Hinckley
Triumph Factory
PartofTheAirAmbulanceService.RegisteredCompanyNo.4845905.RegisteredCharityNo. 1098874.
BRACKLEY FESTIVAL OF MOTORCYCLING
INAIDOF
THEAIRAMBULANCESERVICE
- Ride into -
STUNT RIDERS, CLASSIC BIKES, BSB RACE TEAM, FUN
FAIR, REFRESHMENTS & MUCH MORE!
ENTRY
£12.50
online,
£15
sign up on the day
SupportedbyMidlandsBikeMarshals&
Dr Jill Tolfrey
