by admin | Feb 23, 2017 | Donations
We have received a lovely letter from Angela Dyson, the Secretary of Stoneclough Women’s Institute, with an enclosed cheque donation of £64. Angela explained that Stoneclough WI had nominated Bolton Mountain Rescue Team for their annual Christmas appeal 2016 and...
by admin | Feb 23, 2017 | Donations
We are pleased to report receipt of a generous donation of £250 from Philip Eccleston of Hill Runner UK following our involvement in providing safety cover at the Mast Race 10K held on 29th January 2017. Philip commented that it was a pleasure to have Bolton Mountain...
by admin | Feb 19, 2017 | 2017, Incident
At 15:47 today Lancashire Constabulary contacted the team for assistance with a search in the Anglezarke area. It was for a man who the police were becoming increasingly concerned for his welfare. Once again, this was passed to our neighbouring team Bowland Pennine...
by admin | Feb 19, 2017 | 2017, Incident
At 10:42 this morning the team were contacted by Lancashire Constabulary to request assistance with a search in the Duxbury Park area of Chorley. Chorley is covered by our neighbouring team, Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team, so the call was passed on to them....
by admin | Feb 17, 2017 | Safety Cover
Local running club, the Darwen Dashers host a number of fell races the team assist with, tonight it was the Dark Un fell race. The race starts from the Royal in Tockholes, taking in the Roddlesworth Woods and Darwen Moor, starting at 19:30, it is advised runners...
by admin | Feb 17, 2017 | Donations, General news
Regular readers of this website will know the tremendous support we received over a period of some ten years from Jim Fletcher BEM of Belthorn and his ‘customers’ at The Shed. During that time around £7,000 was donated to Bolton Mountain Rescue Team by...
by admin | Feb 17, 2017 | 2017, Incident
At 13:08 today the team was contacted by the North West Ambulance Service to respond to a potential balloon crash in the vicinity of Darwen Moor. A member of the public had seen a balloon descend quickly from the opposite side of Darwen and had alerted the emergency...
by admin | Feb 17, 2017 | Donations
We have received a generous donation of £50, gift-aided, from Gillian & Alexander Terrell of Horwich, in memory of Mrs Hilda Hutchinson-Lowe, who was the late mother of our President, Bob Hutchinson. We are very grateful for this donation towards our work and...
by admin | Feb 11, 2017 | Donations, General news
From 10:00 to 18:00 today, Bolton Mountain Rescue Team held a charity collection at ASDA, Brackley Street, Farnworth. Our Fundraising Officer was joined by four members of our Support Group, two trainee operational team members and the partner of one of the trainees,...
by admin | Feb 8, 2017 | Training
Today the team was joined by response officers from Greater Manchester Police for a training day. The session is one which the team has already undertaken with several groups of officers from GMP to give an insight into how the team is organised and operates with...
