Christmas Challenge 2017 Discover. Donate. Double In a few days time on #GivingTuesday this years The Big Give national fundraising campaign supporting lots of local charities begins. Freewheelers has been chosen to be one of those participating charities to encourage supporters and family and friends to donate online to our project at Flying High with Freewheelers.. If we can raise £2,000 online during the #ChristmasChallenge17, then the impact of your donations will be DOUBLED by pledges received from local companies and The Hospital Saturday Fund who will kindly match your donations. Why Donate ? Our project is seeking funds to contribute to the cost of the life saving 100+ mile round trip service our volunteers perform free of charge, by transporting blood products and plasma to our two local air ambulance charities of Great Western in Bristol and Wiltshire in Devizes EVERY night of the year so the Air Ambulance specialist crews are ready to give enhanced critical care at the roadside. When can you Donate ? The #ChristmasChallenge17 is only open from midday on Nov 28th until midday on Dec 5th, so please take 5 mins to DONATE HERE, then spread the word to your friends, family, work colleagues, clubs etc and know your impact will be DOUBLED. Thankyou ps: if you can, don't forget to tick the gift aid option too !

Choose Us for your Local Co op Community cause! Freewheelers have been nominated as one of the local causes in the Co op Community Fund, this is for our West patch area, so if you live within approx.15 miles of Taunton, then you will see us listed on the local causes along with other local charities. This is where we need your help as by choosing us, Co op donate 1% of spend at their local stores. Go to Choose your Local Cause and select Freewheelers EVS. Our bikes are planning to visit the local stores so you can come and have a chat and find out more about how we serve your local community. So please take 5 mins to vote for us and spread the word.

WINNERS! On tonight's ITV West Country news the results of the voting from the #PeoplesProjects were announced, our project Wheels to save lives was one of the three winners in our region. Woo hoo, we are so excited at the prospect of two new bikes for our fleet to help continue delivering and expanding our free life saving service to the local communities. Massive THANK YOU to everyone who helped spread the word and gathered in the votes - we don't know the final count itself so will let you know when we do.

News Flash! We have been nominated in the #peoplesprojects to win £30,000 to fund two new bikes for our life saving service. We now need YOUR VOTE to win in our region, so please go to the Peoples projects website and vote for us. Our project name is Wheels to save lives. Voting starts on Monday 20th March at 9am until Monday April 3rd and you can see a video of what we do and how it benefits the communities we support. The same feature will also be shown at 6pm on ITV West Country on Friday March 24th. We will remind you don't worry ! To vote - you just need an email address, or we can provide freepost voting cards if you prefer. Please share the message out to your friends and family and supporters - just contact us via our website for leaflets / posters to help publicise this fantastic opportunity.

Taunton Moose International Moose members in Taunton have had another successful year in our endeavours to promote our aim of caring and sharing in our local community and at a national level. We have held various fund raising events and, while having fun, have also, thanks to all the support we have received at our events, raised money for local groups. The picture was taken at our AGM at the end of March when the men and ladies of Moose donated money £4000 to local groups. The picture shows the representatives of the groups who received the money. From the left Richard Reeves - Freewheelers, Judy Ware – Moose Lady’s Circle President, Major Sue Camp-Richards – Salvation Army, Rosie Hather- Taunton Association for the Homeless, Roger Baker – Taunton President, Vanessa Marchmant – S.U.R.E. and David Hobbs – Freewheelers.