Welcome to GNAAS Trading Company Ltd

Our business was established by the Great North Air Ambulance Service and is committed to giving 100 per cent of its profits to the charity. We have grown to become the charity’s biggest single donor.

Recycling is our passion. We collect unwanted goods from Berwick in the North, to York in the South, from Whitby in the East to Whitehaven in the West. Our fleet of vehicles is 23 strong, staffed by 54 employees, and based at our two sites at Newton Aycliffe Business Park in County Durham and Skirsgill Business Park in Penrith, Cumbria.

While door to door clothing collections are the main source of our income, we also collect recyclable materials from businesses. Collections include card, paper, plastics, mobile phones and used ink/ toner cartridges. We also run a paper shredding service and have recently opened a discount shop at our Newton Aycliffe site which sells high street goods at up to half price.

For more information about any of our services, and how we can help turn your waste into life-saving donations, please have a look around our website.

Charity

The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) is a charity which operates a fleet of helicopters covering an area of 8,000 square miles, from the Scottish Borders to North Yorkshire, from East Coast to West. These helicopters can be anywhere in the region in fifteen minutes. On board are specialist trauma doctors and paramedics, bringing Accident and Emergency expertise to the scene, giving the patient the best possible chance of recovery. GNAAS is continually examining its methods to ensure that the patients can continue to expect this level of service.

To give you some indication of our need for your help, it costs £2,500 per mission to fly. This figure takes into account the cost of the aircraft, its storage and fuel, paying the pilots and the paramedics, the medicine, and other equipment. GNAAS responds to hundreds of call-outs a month and to satisfy this demand, it takes about £4m a year in fundraising. To further emphasise the necessity of your support, the service does not receive any Government or National Lottery funding and therefore relies on the support of the public to continue its work.

The Great North Air Ambulance Service – we need your help today, will you need ours tomorrow?

For more details about how you can help please visit www.greatnorthairambulance.co.uk or call 01325-487263.