by admin | Sep 18, 2018 | Uncategorised
Since September 2018, all news items have been posted to our team’s Facebook page. The team maintains our archive of news posts (Blog) between 2001 and 2018 on this website, for historical purposes.
by admin | Sep 11, 2018 | Lectures/Presentations/Displays
Today Assistant Team Leader Mark Scott headed for The Rivington, in Rivington Village, where the owners had kindly been raising money for the Team to help us restock in the wake of the Winter Hill Fire. They presented Mark with a cheque for the tremendous sum of...
by admin | Sep 10, 2018 | Lectures/Presentations/Displays
Assistant Team Leader Mark Scott visited The Holiday Inn in Bolton Town Centre today. He was there to deliver an illustrated talk about the work of the Team to an over-50s Friendship Group who meet there regularly. The talk, which included photographs and videos taken...
by admin | Jul 23, 2018 | Donations
On 30th June 2018, whilst most of the team was engaged assisting the Fire Service with the moorland fires at Rivington, five of our Support Group and one operational team member operated a rota to hold a charity collection in the entrance of ASDA’s store at...
by admin | Jul 11, 2018 | General news
We are pleased to report an income of £1,358.03 for the first six months of 2018 from our collection boxes located throughout the community in our operational area – from Darwen in the North to Wigan in the West, Broughton in the East and Manchester Airport to...
by admin | Jul 7, 2018 | Donations, General news
Today, at the invitation of the organisers of Darwen 999 day taking place on Darwen Market Square one Support Group member attended this event with our Mountain Rescue Vehicle BM3 on display. Many other team members and vehicles were still committed to assisting the...
by admin | Jun 16, 2018 | Donations
We are pleased to announce a donation from Paul Allen, the Treasurer for the East Lancashire Group of the Long Distance Walkers Association. The £45 donation had arisen from the Groups Two Crosses Challenge Walk event. We would like to thank all members and...
by admin | May 17, 2018 | Incident
At 15:46 on Sunday 13th May we were contacted by North West Ambulance Service with the request to assist in the recovery of a body from Horrocks moor, off Coal Pit Road, Smithills. 15 team members attended this incident alongside colleagues from Greater Manchester...
by admin | May 17, 2018 | General news
Our representative body, Mountain Rescue (England & Wales) have released two documents our readers may be interested in reading. The MREW Annual Review 2018 gives a taste of what mountain rescue teams across England and Wales have been up to over the past 12...
by admin | May 11, 2018 | Donations
Today we received a card in the post from Mark and Katherine Stacey and Richard Elrington. In the card was written: Please find enclosed £135 collected in lieu of flowers at my fathers Derek Raymond Elrington recent funeral. He loved the mountains and the local moors....
