by admin | Jan 14, 2011 | Donations, General news
We have today received a great donation from Mr Gary Melia. We provided Gary, who owns and runs The Barber Shop, 19 Deansgate, Radcliffe, M26 2SH, with a collecting box at his request last September. He phoned just after Christmas to say it needed emptying. Our...
by admin | Jan 14, 2011 | 2011, Incident
Well fourteen days into the New Year and this morning saw what we all thought would be our first full Team Call Out of the year. At 09:39 this morning a Greater Manchester Police Missing Person Search Manager contacted our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE by mobilephone...
by admin | Jan 13, 2011 | General news
Despite the team having no current membership vacancies, and therefore no recruitment intake sessions for the foreseeable future, we are still receiving regular enquiries from persons wishing to join the operational membership of the team, which must be some measure...
by admin | Jan 13, 2011 | Donations, General news
Today we received a very kind and thoughtful donation from Sellafield Limited, Hinton House, Risley, Warrington. Pauline Deans of Sellafield Limited explained that the team had recently been put forward by Vicky Harold of Sellafield Limited for their ’Charity of...
by admin | Jan 13, 2011 | Donations, General news
Today we received a very kind donation of £20.00 from team supporter Teresa Holland of Bradshaw, against the purchase of a MREW 2011 Calendar from the team (£5.00) with the remaining £15.00 as a donation “For all the hard work done by the...
by admin | Jan 12, 2011 | Donations, General news
Today we are very happy to report the wonderful donation of £125.00 from our friends and supporters at ’The Open Door’ Ladies’ Group, Holy Trinity Parish Church, Horwich. In a letter to our Team Leader accompanying this thoughtful and very...
by admin | Jan 11, 2011 | Donations, General news
Today we received a wonderful donation of £167.00 from our valued friends and supporters in the joint St Mary’s Ramblers, Horwich, and University of the Third Age Chorley Local Group, Medium Walking Group. In a letter to our Team Leader accompanying this...
by admin | Jan 9, 2011 | Donations, General news
Regular readers of the website may recall that on Sunday 1st August 2010 a Charity Horse Ride and Fancy Dress Walk took place in order to raise funds for the team by horse riders and staff from Shoreside Farm Yard and Stables, Prestolee Rd, Radcliffe Today we were...
by admin | Jan 7, 2011 | Donations, General news
On Friday 24th September 2010, the team was called out, alongside other resources, to search for a missing 83 year old farmer at Brinsop Hall Farm, Westhoughton. Very sadly during the search the body of the farmer Charles Gordon Gregory was located by Bolton Mountain...
by admin | Jan 6, 2011 | Donations, General news
We are very happy to report on the visit last night to our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ by eleven year old Krisshan Jade Weedall, in the company of her mother and father, Alison and Dave, to personally hand over a donation to the team. Krisshan, aged eleven, of Plodder...