by admin | May 15, 2015 | Donations
On Sunday 26th July 2015, we are hosting a very special day at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ, when the High Sheriff of Greater Manchester visits us, and the Bishop of Bolton also attends at the same time to bless and dedicate our Incident Control Vehicle. This same...
by admin | May 15, 2015 | General news
Announced on Thursday 7th May 2015, with an update report on Monday 11th May 2015, our request to encourage voting for our Aviva Community Fund bid is now gathering momentum, through our many Facebook and Twitter friends. We’ve also had some great publicity for our...
by admin | May 14, 2015 | General news
This evening our Team Training Officer Alistair Greenough, met up with team members Kris Kilshaw and Phil Crook, at Clifton Country Park, to pre plan our exercise scheduled to be held at this venue, next Wednesday 20th May 2015. Suffice to say, some devious and...
by admin | May 14, 2015 | Training
Our readers are aware that we are currently in the process of reviewing our rope access training, which is a direct follow on to the training received on the recent visit by five team members to Lyon Equipment on Saturday 18th April 2015 (Please see website report...
by admin | May 14, 2015 | Lectures/Presentations/Displays
This evening our Team Secretary, Gillian Gregory, represented our Support Group at the invitation of our fantastically supportive friends at the Rotary Club of Westhoughton, who had arranged a ‘local area’ recruitment evening for volunteers from within the local...
by admin | May 14, 2015 | General news
This morning our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE joined with others at the 10.00hrs start debrief meeting for this years Emergency 999 – Multi Agency Show and Tell Event, held on March 31st 2015, at the same venue as the event, namely LFRS Training Centre, Washington...
by admin | May 13, 2015 | General news
With the team membership having been out on emergency call outs on Saturday evening, Monday and Tuesday evenings, it was deemed ‘thoughtful’ to give everybody the ‘night off’ from our routine scheduled weekly Wednesday evening training exercise of tonight. So most got...
by admin | May 13, 2015 | Training
Our readers are aware that we are currently in the process of reviewing our rope access training, which is a direct follow on to the training received on the recent visit by five team members to Lyon Equipment on Saturday 18th April 2015 (Please see website report...
by admin | May 12, 2015 | 2015, Incident
Whilst engaged in transporting some team members from their completed search area back to Search Control, this evening at circa 19.35hrs, the driver and passengers of our Ford Transit Minibus / Ambulance, radio call sign ‘Bolton Mobile 5,’ whilst in the area of Astley...
by admin | May 12, 2015 | 2015, Incident
Throughout this morning, in anticipation of a continuation of yesterdays search incident, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE liaised with Simon Lane the Team Leader of Cheshire SART and both with Greater Manchester Police, culminating in both teams being requested by...
