YORKSHIRE Air Ambulance has appointed a new Regional Fundraising Manager for North and East Yorkshire. Linda Stead has stepped up from Regional Fundraiser for the North Yorkshire Region to manage all of North Yorkshire covering from the Yorkshire Dales, to the East Coast and the Humber.

Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) serves five million people across Yorkshire and carries out more than 1,300 missions every year. The Charity operates two, state-of-the-art Airbus H145 helicopters and needs to raise £12,000 every day to keep saving lives.

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Lin has worked at Yorkshire Air Ambulance since 2016, but she started her career very differently as a postwoman for the Royal Mail, before progressing to HR roles within the firm for more than 25 years, then going into the pub trade for a while. After a short break she saw a volunteer vacancy for the charity that Lin turned her hand to charity work.

Commenting on the start of her role at the YAA, Lin said “Yorkshire Air Ambulance is very much a close, family-values charity. Everyone knows everybody and appreciates everyone’s individual roles both from the operational roles, administration to the fundraising side and the volunteers. It is very active, you’re out and meeting new people all the time, they are so generous and grateful that we are here. It’s a wonderful feeling going to work on a morning”, she continued.

 

A GROWING North Yorkshire-based architectural practice is expanding as demand for its specialist healthcare services continues to grow.

Harris Irwin recently welcomed nine new members of staff to its team, as well as increasing the size of its northern head office on the outskirts of Richmond.

And it is planning to create more jobs to enable it to grow further in 2022.

The practice, which also has offices in London and Holland, has seen unprecedented demand for its services with many of the UK’s largest care home operators choosing Harris Irwin to design new care homes for the elderly, including dementia-friendly settings.

Harris Irwin added to its 40-strong team with the appointments of Freya Parkinson and Ella Ashworth (Part 1 Architectural Assistants); Emily Rowe, Alex Bird and Reuben Oatley (Part 2 Architectural Assistants); Graham Agar-Plews (Technician), Zoe Worner (Junior Technician), Bobby Pourjafar (Technician), and Louise Clarke (Personal Assistant to the Directors).

All apart from Alex (London office) are based at the head office at Aske, near Richmond.

As well as adding to its team, Harris Irwin has also expanded its head office, occupying an adjoining room at Aske, which has effectively doubled its office space.

 

Hellens Group, the property, construction and regeneration specialist with offices based in Stockton-on-Tees and Washington, has welcomed two new financial managers to oversee both the group and its Oakdale manufacturing business.

Rachel Bradley, who joined the team at Hellens Residential while she was still a student at Northumbria University, was promoted to group finance manager.

Andy Johnson completed his chartered accountancy exams at age 21 and has worked exclusively with local family owned and managed entrepreneurial businesses. Andy will initially be focused on Hellens Group’s trading subsidiary, Oakdale Contracts, which operates out of Catterick manufacturing innovative hard landscaping concrete products, with a market leading focus on sustainability.

 

North East sustainable building materials supplier McGovern & Co. has appointed Steve Ruddick as Commercial Manager to support its continued growth and expansion plans across the North of England.

Ruddick joins from Marshall’s bricks and masonry division, whose products are stocked by the Felling-based building supplies specialist, which holds more than two million bricks at its Albion Street depot.

He has almost 20 years’ sales and specification experience in the sector.

 

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