Mystery shopping company presents cheque to Air Ambulance

 

By Jamie White – Head of Communications

 

Fundraising throughout 2013 by team members at mystery shopping and customer experience company, Douglas Stafford, has raised £1,000 for charity.

 

A series of events, including dress down days, raffles and cake sales, helped raise the amount which has been handed over to the company’s nominated charity in 2013, the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance (HIOWAA).

 

Douglas Stafford Operations Director, Ben Sargeant, presented a cheque to Community and Corporate Fundraiser for HIOWAA, Rosemarie Norman, at the Douglas Stafford Head Office at 1000 Lakeside, Portsmouth.

 

The company also supported the HIOWAA in 2012, raising £1,000 for the cause.

 

Rosemarie said: “It was great to receive another cheque from Douglas Stafford and we thank the company for its support.”

 

The HIOWAA began operations in July 2007. The helicopter is based at Thruxton Airfield, near Andover, and the Head Office is at King’s Park Road, Southampton.

 

Each day, the Air Ambulance crew provides an efficient, prompt response to road traffic collisions, sporting accidents, collapses, and many other incidents throughout Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The helicopter is called out many times per day, and these missions are often life-saving.

 

Ben said: “Everyone at Douglas Stafford is always keen to support our charity initiatives.

 

“The Air Ambulance is a vital service for everyone.  It costs around £125,000 a month to keep it in the air, and with no Government funding, it relies solely on donations and fundraising from people in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, and local businesses.”

 

 

Douglas Stafford provides an extensive range of mystery shopping and performance improvement programmes, including telephone mystery shopping, email mystery shopping, report based mystery shopping and video mystery shopping to companies in a range of industry sectors in the UK.