Bus operator announces chosen charity

Trentbarton has announced which charity it will be supporting over the next two years.

The bus operator has decided to support Lincs and Notts Air Ambulance during 2024 and 2025.

The airborne lifesaving charity is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and came top by some distance in a staff vote of causes nominated by the public.

Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance responded to 1,771 missions in 2023, its busiest year on record.

The charity’s crews of pilots, doctors and paramedics fly critically ill and injured patients to hospitals and provide a range of life-saving treatments including blood transfusions, anaesthetics and life-saving drugs.

Trentbarton staff will raise cash in a variety of ways, including events and its Namesake programme, where people can donate money to have a bus named after a loved one.

Scarlet McCourt, trentbarton’s marketing and communications manager, said: “It’s great to be raising these vital funds for Lincs and Notts Air Ambulance once again, having originally worked together in 2015 as charity partners.

“We’re so happy to see them receiving so many votes this time round from both our customers and team, and we can’t wait to get going.”