Yesterday morning, after the news about the Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond's injuries in a crash at 280 miles per hour, a guy called Alex Goss put up a fundraising page on the charity fundraising website JustGiving. Alex's goal was to raise £340 on behalf of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance Service - the helicopter that picked up Richard and took him to hospital after the crash. £340 pays for - on average - one flight of the air ambulance, a worthy and noble cause.
Very quickly the total raised went well over the £340, and continued to gain momentum during the day. Alex updated the site with the new goal of £7500. About 4:30pm yesterday afternoon the BBC news website updated one of it's pages with the link to the fundraising website - JustGiving and it quickly shot up to just under £10,000 when I left work at 6pm.
I got into work this morning and Alex's site had again been updated with a new goal of £25,500 and has now raised £29,000. In fact in the time it has taken me to write this small blog entry the total has gone up to £29,937. With the Gift Aid reclaimed by just giving on the behalf of the donors, this total is now £37,616.38
Incredible from just a small goal of £340
http://www.justgiving.com/phrichardhammond
Well done Alex, top job mate!
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