Radio group members send a strong signal to charity

Radio group members send a strong signal to charity
Wed, 20th April 2022

A GROUP of amateur radio enthusiasts has used its members’ fees for the time it couldn't meet because of Covid to donate them to a local charity.

South Derbyshire and Ashby Woulds Amateur Radio Group members didn’t have to pay their fees during the pandemic, so they decided to hold a collection and donate the cash to the Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland Air Ambulance.

Each mission of the air ambulance costs in the region of £1,700, with no Government funding of any form.

Whenever the club does any fundraising, it has always been for the air ambulance, started by the club's previous chairman Lewis Kirby, who died a few years ago.

Tracey Jones, community fundraising executive for the Derbyshire area of the air ambulance, received a cheque for £200 on behalf of the air ambulance charity. Members of the radio group demonstrated some of its activities and history.

As it was a group night, Ms Jones was lucky to see the “Shack” in action, as Rich G5RJH and Mark 2E0MGA were operating as G0SRC in an 80m contest on the same evening.The club meets at The Moira Replan centre, in Moira, every Wednesday from 7pm to 9pm.

South Derbyshire and Ashby Woulds Amateur Radio Group hands over a cheque for £200 to Tracy Jones of the area’s air ambulance.

South Derbyshire and Ashby Woulds Amateur Radio Group hands over a cheque for £200 to Tracy Jones of the area’s air ambulance.
Story originally published in the Burton Mail, Saturday, 23rd April 2022.