The Air Ambulance that serves Rutland is celebrating 15 years of service with the news that one of their two shops in Oakham has raised enough to fund more than 900 missions during the six years it's been open.
The old factory outlet on Cold Overton Road stocks furniture and homeware and has raised over 1.6 million pounds since its opening on 9 June 2017. Each mission by the Air Ambulance costs £1,700 pounds to carry out and the charity receives no government funding. Shop manager Heather Bowen says it attracts a lot of regular customers. "I was a customer before I actually started working here and I just loved it because there's not much you can't get in here, and the kind of comments we get every day are 'Wow, it's like an Aladdin's cave' and you know, it's just so fun to shop".
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