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Ten year old schoolboy Willem Jefferson has doubled his target and raised more than £2,000 in aid of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance.

At the start of 2012, he decided to set himself the target of raising £1000 for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance as he loves the work they do and aspires to be pilot or paramedic for the charity.

A pupil at Pickhill School in North Yorkshire, he completed the 25-mile Yorkshire Three Peaks sponsored walk in ten hours, 40 minutes, in September this year.

He also held a coffee morning in May, and a big breakfast in June at his home in Holme-on-Swale, near Ripon, to raise funds, and is holding his final coffee morning this weekend.

Willem said: “I’ll definitely do the Three Peaks again, hopefully in under nine hours, and I’ll raise even more money for the Air Ambulance. It is saving lives every day and I love the helicopters.” He doesn’t live very far from where one of the helicopters is based in Topcliffe and often sits for hours with his binoculars watching the helicopters take off and land.

Harrogate RUFC U15’s are delighted to be supporting Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) for the next two seasons by having the YAA as the main shirt sponsor for the squad. “Due to the generosity of a local supporter we will be able to promote the YAA throughout Yorkshire for the coming two years,” says David Flook Head Coach.

The service that the YAA provides to everybody in Yorkshire is vital and to be able to support it as a team throughout the county is a great honour. Harrogate U15’s are a successful squad with players representing North Yorkshire, Leeds Carnegie and the Welsh Exiles.

Tony Doveston, YAA’s fundraiser for North Yorkshire, said he was delighted that this community based club, with a great team ethos, has decided to support YAA. Receiving life saving rapid response so soon after injury increases someone’s chance of survival and helps speed up the recovery process.