That means Glen Innes has raised some $70,000 this year through a pair of fundraisers this year, with a third to come in May.

Nikki Lee said they had doubled the take of their first fundraiser, which raised $23,000 in 2017. The numbers were beamed onto a wall at the Glen Innes services club as money came in, from tickets, pre-event pledges and an auction.

Ms Lee said seeing the number made her "absolutely elated".

"Just to see the figure keep rising throughout the night was amazing," she said.

"Almost every person at the Dancing for the Chopper on Saturday night knows somebody or knows of somebody who has been rescued by the helicopter.

"And it's just become so important, the community's become so aware of the need for it in town the fact that we can have someone from the side of the road in an accident in Tamworth in Newcastle in two hours.

"We can have paramedics and medical support teams from John Hunter hospital in Glen Innes...

"People are just aware of how important it is now."

The chopper they were dancing for will need the money. The Westpac helicopter has flown 26 missions in the Glen Innes Severn area since January 1 2018, an average of once a fortnight. It expects to fly about 1500 missions annually across the country.

Injured police Helen McMurtrie and Mark Johnston were flown out by the helicopter after a horrific shooting incident in January.

Glen Innes residents were last flown out as recently as Thursday, when a 33 year old man was flown to Tamworth's John Hunter hospital.

The Westpac helicopter service is not for profit and free to use, but relies on the charity of communities across New South Wales. The service costs $40 million a year to keep in the air, $12 million comes from charity.

The dance for the chopper event attracted 371 people to pay a $50 ticket price. Businesses formed teams who competed with one another in fundraising and dubious dancing ability.

Ultimately the council team won people's choice, with the public school raising the most money and the Woolworths petrol winning the overall prize. There were also teams from the correctional centre, King's gym and Star Avenue dance centre.

An auction netted an additional $15,000 with the biggest auction items going to the local MP. Member for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall paid an unbeatable $1150 for a signed NSW Waratahs jersey. Joanne Anderson donated three decorative garden feature balls made of barbed wire, which were sold separately but in total netted $2300. Another punter paid $1000 for a joyflight over Glen Innes.

As of Sunday the committee had raised $48,000, just short of fifty grand. But an anonymous donor handed a $2000 cheque on Monday morning.

Most importantly, people had a good time, with revelers dancing well up to midnight and live music by local Mark Colley earlier in the night.

"The fun and the awareness was the main thing, the money was just a bonus," said Nikki Lee.

Nikki got involved with fundraising for the Westpac helicopter after her son Thomas was flown out with a punctured lung just 16 hours old. Ten weeks later her father-in-law had a stroke and was flown out as well. That was four years ago and for three-and-a-half years she's been committee secretary and treasurer.

The committee will be toasting its success; the funds are worth 12.5 flying hours for the service.

The next event is a golf day on May 26. And the next dancing event is set for two years' time.