Autoline Insurance Group announced today that it has raised £9,110 for Air Ambulance Northern Ireland (AANI). As the company’s selected hero charity of the year, Autoline has raised the total through a wide variety of fundraising efforts across its five branches in 2018.

This impressive figure will fund AANI support work across Northern Ireland, delivering patient care when life-threatening incidents occur.

Employees from the various branches in Ballymena, Coleraine, Downpatrick, Enniskillen, and Newry got involved with numerous activities to raise funds for the local charity. Events included street collections, raffles, hamper giveaways, quiz nights and spin-a-thons, while Autoline’s head office in Newry held a series of Taco Tuesdays, ‘Fry-days’, Bakes Offs, healthy breakfast mornings and a Santa’s Grotto experience.

Suzanne Curtis, Marketing Manager, Autoline Insurance Group said: “Everyone at Autoline is delighted to announce the final total raised for AANI, our charity partner for 2018.  The Air Ambulance is making an amazing difference across Northern Ireland. Employees across our five branches got fully behind the fundraising efforts, putting on fantastic events to reach this amount.

“At Autoline, when we say we are passionate about supporting the local community we really mean it. Our Respect the Road road safety education programme has reached over 50,000 young people and we have strong links with Northern Ireland’s farming community. Since the outset of the partnership we knew that AANI’s remarkable work would be a perfect fit with the company’s ethos. We are excited to continue supporting AANI into 2019 and are determined to help even more.”

Kerry Anderson, AANI’s Head of Fundraising, said: “Serious or life-threatening situations can and do happen regularly and, on average, every single day in Northern Ireland one individual finds themselves in desperate need of the AANI service. We are dedicated to delivering the very best possible patient care, so our service is often the difference between life and death. Since our first deployment in July 2017 the HEMS team have been tasked to attend 672 incidents. Given the level of need and the fact that each day we need to raise £5,500; partnerships like this one are greatly appreciated and we are delighted to be continuing our partnership with Autoline.”

Autoline offer a wide range of insurance products such as car insurance, home insurance  and young driver insurance through their sister company.