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Local Couple Light-up For First Responders

Martyn Johnson • Jan 21, 2014

Christmas lights display raises money for Five Villages First Responders

Sid Burgess with the grand total from his festive fund raising efforts

Two kind hearted local residents have raised over £170 for the volunteer Five Villages First Responder team by lighting up their home with hundreds of festive lights over the Christmas period.

Sid and Sylvia Burgess of Grove Park, Misterton, decorate the outside of their home and front garden every year with a host of Christmas lights and decorations and collect donations for a nominated local charity or group.

This year they choose to donate the proceeds to the Five Villages First Responder team based in Misterton.

The responder group covers Misterton, West Stockwith, Beckingham, Walkeringham, Gringley on the Hill and surrounding villages. The team works in partnership with East Midlands Ambulance Service and they can give care to patients suffering from medical emergencies until the arrival of the ambulance.

The group is self funding and relies on fund raising and donations to pay for some of the equipment and running costs of this rural scheme. They said: "We are extremely grateful to Sid and Sylvia, along with their two helpers, for their hard work and for choosing the proceeds of their festive fund raising to be donated to us."

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