{"id":1484,"date":"2019-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/uncategorized\/york-firm-gives-air-ambulance-5k-cash-boost\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T14:38:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T14:38:20","slug":"york-firm-gives-air-ambulance-5k-cash-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/york-firm-gives-air-ambulance-5k-cash-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"York IT firm&#8217;s charity event gives air ambulance cash boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A York IT firm has given\u00a0Yorkshire Air Ambulance\u00a0a fundraising lift.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/180323108.jpg.gallery-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"180323108.jpg.gallery\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Catalyst IT Solutions, based in\u00a0Heslington, hosted a Peaky Blinders Ball at York Racecourse and raised nearly \u00a35,600 for the air ambulance charity.<\/p>\n<p>The Peaky Blinders event, which saw 300 attendees donning their best 1920s attire and featured dancers from the Performing Arts Course at\u00a0York College, also had a headline performance from popular party band, The Tzars.<\/p>\n<p>Catalyst IT has raised more than \u00a320,000 in total by hosting four annual fundraisers for charity and the first event was a James Bond themed party, celebrating 20 years since the release date of the film, Goldeneye. 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The Peaky Blinders event, which saw 300 attendees donning their best 1920s attire and featured dancers from the Performing Arts Course at\u00a0York College, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,31],"tags":[100,202],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funding","category-tech-sparx","tag-heslington","tag-yorkshire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>York IT firm&#039;s charity event gives air ambulance cash boost - Regional technology news - North - TechSparx - Business technology stories in the North<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/york-firm-gives-air-ambulance-5k-cash-boost\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"York IT firm&#039;s charity event gives air ambulance cash boost - Regional technology news - North - TechSparx - Business technology stories in the North\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A York IT firm has given\u00a0Yorkshire Air Ambulance\u00a0a fundraising lift. 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