The West Yorkshire Medic Response Team (WYMRT) travels up to 400 miles each weekend attending emergency incidents across West Yorkshire in order to give patients vital pre-hospital care.

WYMRT doctors all work in the health service but give up their own time on Friday and Saturday nights to support ambulance crews by attending the scenes of heart attacks, fires, shootings, stabbings, road traffic collisions and other serious incidents.

This important service, which has now been operating for seven years, was recently threatened with closure when its previous funding ran out.

Now WYMRT has been given a new lease of life through a £15,000 donation from Bradford-based Sovereign, which will pay for the running of its medically-equipped, rapid response Volvo car, as well as covering the cost of replacement medical equipment and training courses for team members for one year. In addition, Sovereign has spent £3,000 on 30 uniforms for the crews.