Charities
Grantown Museum is owned by Grantown Museum & Heritage Trust. Our team consists of a professional manager, a curator and a group of dedicated volunteers. The Trust has over 200 members, with a Board of Directors elected from the membership. Members pay an annual subscription. Our volunteers help the museum with fundraising events and in the shop and Tourist Information Centre. The museum is a major community initiative and remains an ongoing community project. Burnfield House, home of the museum, was purchased in 1995 for £150,000, raised entirely from private sources. A further £300,000 was raised, with help from the Heritage Lottery Fund. We officially opened our doors to the public in April 1999. The campanile outside Burnfield House was built to house the restored town bell in 2006 with funding provided by the Bulmer Trust.
The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) rescues hundreds of severely injured or ill patients every year throughout the North East, North Yorkshire, Cumbria and the Isle of Man. Their critical care teams include a pre-hospital doctor, specialist paramedic and an expert pilot, who take the A&E to the scene of the incident, whether that is on a fell top, a roadside or in a city centre. GNAAS responds to over 2,000 call-outs every year, via their helicopter and rapid response vehicles, where they perform treatments and procedures which can mean the difference between life or death. The service is 100% reliant on charitable funding and would not be possible without public support.
Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC) provides emergency care to people who are in a state so critical that they require the specialist skills of its crew at the scene of the accident or medical incident. Though GWAAC is part of the regional 999 response service and works closely with NHS hospitals, it is a charity funded by local people across its region of Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, North Somerset and parts of Wiltshire.
GAR was founded in 1989 and works to alleviate the suffering of animals in Greece by supporting a number of animal shelters, sterilising as many dogs & cats as funds allow and finding homes for the lucky few in the UK and several other EU countries.