Wiltshire's future
You have probably already noticed this, but for the sake of completeness in this thread....
The Wiltshire Air Ambulance Appeal should become an independent charity during September after the Great Western Ambulance Service (GWAS) agreed to give up its sole trusteeship of the appeal.
A new charity, the Wiltshire Air Ambulance Charitable Trust, will be set up with a new bank account for the acceptance of donations. The new charity will have to increase fundraising from the current level of £750,000 a year to £2M to cover the expected cost of a stand-alone air ambulance helicopter from 2015.
The £1.2M reserves in the Wiltshire Air Ambulance Appeal will be frozen and set aside for GWAS to use to pay the ambulance service's part of the contract with Wiltshire Police for the joint helicopter/air ambulance through to December 2014.