Jonathan works for Cornwall Council. He is also a volunteer fundraiser for several Cornish charities and organisations; having raised over £200,000 in total. Jonathan has been a keen advocate for the Cornwall Air Ambulance for many years and as a Board Member of the New Heli Appeal helped raise nearly £100,000 towards the AW169. Jonathan is also Chairman of St Allen Parish Council and a Justice of the Peace. Jonathan is Chairman of the Philanthropy Forum.

Ali is MD of Total Energy Solutions, an energy broker specialising in business. Taking a refreshingly different approach of being open, honest and transparent in everything they do in as environmentally way as possible. The company has grown to 6 staff and over 250 clients nationally and is now a leading broker in the industry. We recently won the Western Morning News Corporate Social responsibility Award.

Ali is also heavily involved in employability mentoring at Exeter and Plymouth university, winning the vice Chancellors Employability mentor award. Ali and his wife also developed a nationally award winning employability mentoring scheme for students about to enter the word of work, Most recently Ali has been involved with Exeter University developing a new degree apprenticeship MSc in Renewable Energy Systems.

Ali was also heavily involved in bringing the training tallship Pelican to Plymouth, sadly just before the current Covid-19 crisis.
Mentoring continues to be a passion of Ali’s along with the CAAT. Ali is extremely honoured to have sat on the New Heli appeal board.

Despite spending the last 40 years living and travelling to different places around the UK and internationally, Cornwall is and will always be, home. My parents, family and close friends still live in Cornwall and it’s definitely where my heart is – there is nowhere as special and I’m honoured to have been asked to be an Ambassador for the Cornwall Air Ambulance.

Having grown up in Cornwall, I know that there are also challenges, none more important than the long distances to hospitals, the difficult roads and traffic congestion. That’s why the Cornwall Air Ambulance is so important. My mum was airlifted to Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro and it was a big relief to my dad and myself to know that she was in such good hands – they not only make a difference to patients but to families too.

I’ve got to know the whole Cornwall Air Ambulance team and I’m in awe of the paramedics, the pilots and the teams who support them. I was delighted to be able to raise over £95,000 to buy the pilot’s seat in the new heli last year with help from my company, Comitti Boats UK & Caribbean and favourite partners, including Clarendon Fine Art, Maranello Ferrari, Bollinger, Rick Stein, Sheree Valentine Daines and Stephanie Millward MBE.

Comitti Boats UK & Caribbean have also just sponsored the new pilots’ uniforms and I’m committed to supporting Cornwall Air Ambulance, both through personal donations as well as leveraging my partners and teams to deliver exciting fundraising initiatives, including The Twelve Days of Christmas Challenge in 2020.

Together we can keep the Cornwall Air Ambulance flying – saving lives and keeping families together.

Jackie is a successful and well-known businesswoman within Cornwall. Jackie has personally contributed to the appeal and was the inspiration behind the charities first London Gala Dinner, which took place in January. This wonderful event raised £130,000 and showcased the charity to our London supporter base who were joined by Cornwall donors for this spectacular evening. Jackie continues to support the charity as a member of the newly formed Philanthropy Forum.

Kate was thrilled to join the Heli Appeal Board in July 2019, and is excited to continue to support this wonderful charity as a member of the new Philanthropy Forum, working alongside the wonderful team at CAAT.

A Social Policy Graduate, Kate spent twenty years working in Critical Care in the NHS, initially, on the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, at St George’s Hospital, then located at Hyde Park Corner, London.
She went on to be a Sister, Senior Nurse and Nurse Educator specialising in Intensive Care and Cardiac Nursing, mostly in London. St George’s was a supra regional centre receiving very sick patients from Cornwall, and she has always had enormous admiration for first responders, and those who transport critically ill patients with enormous skill in challenging conditions – it is much easier in a hospital!

Kate then enjoyed a successful career in the Higher Education sector, as a Head of Department and Associate Dean, coordinating complex projects at local, regional and national level, often involving the setting up of extensive partnership arrangements. She was a founder member of the University Vocational Awards Council, championing the importance of graduate and postgraduate apprenticeships, including advising the Department of Lifelong Learning and Higher Education.

Her interests include singing in a local choir, racing her traditional dinghy, and walking the Coast Path. She is a JP and (the first female) Flag Officer at her local Yacht Club. She has recently been a School Governor and Trustee of an Arts Festival.

Padstow-born Pennie studied medicine in London. She married a Dutchman and lived in Holland for 35 years. While there, she worked as a doctor in A&E in an academic teaching hospital and at Schiphol, also specialising in aviation medicine and aviation medical transport. Pennie is now retired and back in Padstow.