Corfe Castle to be lit up for Air Ambulance Week
The monument's raising awareness of the Dorset and Somerset service
Dorset's Corfe Castle will be lit up throughout this week, to mark Air Ambulance Week (Monday 9th to Sunday 15th September).
It's aimed at raising awareness and funds for the life-saving work of charities including Dorset and Somerset's.
At over 1,000 years old, Corfe Castle is one of Britain’s most iconic and evocative survivors of the English Civil War.
Standing 21 metres tall and positioned atop a 55-metre-high hill, this gleaming tower of Purbeck limestone can be seen from miles around.
Emma Jones, Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance Fundraising Manager said:
“Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance is your local air ambulance charity, funded by you. Our incredible team of clinicians bring the equivalent of an intensive care unit to your home, the roadside, a field, a beach and often to the most remote areas of Dorset and Somerset. They are ordinary people bringing extraordinary care to people in their greatest hour of need and work so hard to save and enhance lives every day of the year. This
care is not otherwise available outside of hospital and only possible with support from the public and the kind donations we receive.
“With every mission costing approximately £3,500, this brilliant awareness generating activity by Corfe Castle, supported by the National Trust, is a truly wonderful gesture and will certainly increase awareness of our work during Air Ambulance Week. We can’t thank them enough.”