New Year’s Eve / New Year’s Day assistance to GMAS

New Year’s Eve / New Year’s Day assistance to GMAS

The early hours of New Year’s day morning saw the team (along with colleagues from the Oldham MRT and SJAB) providing its usual assistance to GMAS, with the provision of crews and mountain rescue vehicles to directly backup the stretched resources of GMAS, over...
New Year’s Eve / New Year’s Day assistance to GMAS

Membership enquiries

While we sit and think of what the New Year has for us, we ended 2002 with 49 membership enquiries by email [Online via the website] and letter, alongside a great many other telephone enquiries. Very few of these enquiries result in a new team member;...
New Year’s Eve / New Year’s Day assistance to GMAS

Guess the number of incidents…

Every year we run our “Guess the total number of incidents competition” With over 80 enteries this year, congratulations to Team member Mark Scott on winning 1st Prize, [and 3rd prize !!], Mr P Cook won the 2nd Prize. A total of £19.50 was raised for...
New Year’s Eve / New Year’s Day assistance to GMAS

Harry Lythgoe

We are sad to report the Christmas Eve death of former Team President, Harry Lythgoe, at 90 years old, following an illness. Harry was largely responsible for setting up our Annual Sponsored Walk, which was a major Team fundraiser throughtout the 1980’s. The...
New Year’s Eve / New Year’s Day assistance to GMAS

Busiest year – ever!

We ended 2002 with 99 recorded incidents of an incredibly varied nature & content. This represents the team’s busiest year ever, and fully illustrates the close integration the team now has with the statutory emergency services.