Air Ambulance looks for help from Trickey Trekkers

The Blackdown Hills will be alive with runners and walkers this autumn as hundreds of people help to raise vital funds for the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance (DSAA).
 
The Trickey Warren Trek fund-raising day will be returning for a third successive year in September.
 
It offers a mix of 10k, 4k, and 2k routes for serious and fun runners alike, and this year there will be a new forest trail route to replace the 4k perimeter track.
 
The trek takes place on Sunday 18 September at Trickey Warren Farm, Culmhead, a former Second World War fighter airfield between Chard and Taunton, in Somerset.
 
More than 200 runners and walkers took part in 2010 and raised thousands of pounds for the life-saving Air Ambulance service.
 
For 2011, there will again be a 2k ‘fun run’ for families and young people, as well as individual and team 4k and 10k runs. Members of running clubs are not eligible for the team events.
 
DSAA chief executive Bill Sivewright said: “This really is an event for everybody. It is for those who take their running quite seriously, an opportunity for friends and work colleagues to get a team together, and very much a family day out and great for children of any age to take part.
 
“We have to raise £1.4 million every year to keep on saving lives without receiving any direct Government or National Lottery funding, and we can only do so with public support and events like the Trickey Warren Trek.”
 
Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance has attended more than 8,000 emergencies since its launch 11 years ago, saving many lives and aiding recovery with the speed at which casualties have been taken to hospital.
 
Entry forms for the Trickey Warren Trek 2011 can be downloaded from the DSAA website at www.dsairambulance.org.uk, or can be obtained by emailing TWT@dsairambulance.org.uk or calling 01823 669604.
 
Trickey Warren Trek is being supported by Summerfield Developments, which is providing running vests, Glastonbury Spring Water which is supplying water for runners, Tony Pryce Sports, which is providing runners’ numbers, builders D.W Hart and Son, which is providing portable toilets, Trevor Barrett Photography, and Spirit Health Club, which is taking the warm up before the start and giving a free day pass to each entrant as well as one-month’s free use of its facilities for the team and individual male and female winners of the 4k and10k events.