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Article: Dot's delight as Wiltshire air ambulance charity shop makes pounds1m ; Dot Whitehead never thought the Wiltshire Air Ambulance charity shop would take off.
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- Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
- Article date:
- September 25, 2008
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Dot Whitehead never thought the Wiltshire Air Ambulance charity
shop would take off.
But since she set it up it has almost doubled in size, and sells
everything from clothes to furniture.
And its takings have just reached pounds1 million - raising
about pounds750,000 for the charity.
Mrs Whitehead, 77, founded the Westbury shop in 1997 and has been
manager ever since.
She is no stranger to volunteering, having set up the first
British Red Cross charity shop in the UK more than 30 years ago.
"I left the Red Cross and, within a month, opened the air
ambulance shop. I said I did not think that it would take off, but
it did and it has been wonderful," she said.
"Within two years we had to ...