Moulton mother and daughter team Liz and Rachel Cooper on mission to help Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance through bottle top collecting

A mother and daughter duo have teamed up to raise money for a life-saving charity.

Liz and Rachel Cooper have been calling out to the South Kesteven and South Holland communities to save and donate plastic bottle tops in aid of Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance.

The pair have set up collection points around the area for people to hand in washed lids from things like drinks and cleaning products, which then get traded at recycling centres in exchange for charity donations.

Mum Liz said: “We need to spread the word to as many people as possible as we need to get to one tonne of plastic lids before the recycling centre will then transfer the funds directly to Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance and our other five chosen charities.”

A Facebook group, with almost 400 members, has been created named Bottle Tops for Charity Community Group which lists all the collection points including locations in Holbeach, Moulton, Kirton, Sutterton, Bourne and The Deepings.

Steph Bradshaw, community fundraising manager at LNAA said: “We are delighted that Rachel and her team of supporters are fundraising for LNAA.

“As a charity, we receive no direct Government funding, and we are not part of the NHS.

“Yet we must raise £13 million this year to keep our helicopter in the sky and our critical care cars on the roads 24/7, every day of the year, treating some of the most seriously ill and injured patients in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.

“We can only do this with the fundraising efforts of people like Rachel and her team.”