by admin | Dec 2, 2010 | General news
This morning, three team members journeyed to a wintry Walkden, Worsley, to give a presentation on the work of the team to the Probus Club of Worsley, at their meeting venue of Walkden (Formerly St Andrews) Methodist Church, Manchester Road, Walkden. Our three...
by admin | Dec 1, 2010 | General news
This evening, whilst their fellow team colleagues were on exercise in the snow on the moors above Horwich, our Team President (and former Team Leader) Bob Hutchinson and long serving team member Mike Marsh, attended the Annual General Meeting of the Bolton Ramblers...
by admin | Nov 30, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 05.16hrs this morning our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted directly by a Greater Manchester Police Missing Person Search Manager regarding a missing 91 year old man in the Bolton area. The man had been reported missing from a Care Home in Bolton to the...
by admin | Nov 30, 2010 | General news
Support Group member Heather Jackson who moved to the Support Group after a spell with the operational side of the team, has left the team due to her Nursing studies, with all the team wishing her well. The fifteen Probationary Team members recruited in to the team on...
by admin | Nov 28, 2010 | Donations, General news
This afternoon the team had the pleasure of a visit by Past President Keith Clarkson of The Rotary Club of Bolton le Moors, who came along to make a fantastic cheque donation to the team. Past President Keith Clarkson commented on the previous support of The Rotary...
by admin | Nov 28, 2010 | 2010, Incident
With a small number of team members still at our base following this morning’s standby rescue cover event at Darwen, we were contacted directly by NWAS (Lancashire) Control at 14:25 to assist with the report of a moorland road traffic accident somewhere in the...
by admin | Nov 28, 2010 | General news
Well following October, this month has been equally successful, with our collecting box income for the month standing at £207.10 compared to £191.99 for the same month last year. This now puts our year to date collecting box income total at the marvellous...
by admin | Nov 28, 2010 | General news
Today the team provided standby rescue cover for the David Staff Memorial Charity Fell Race. This fell race takes in a course over 5.1 miles including 1200 feet of ascent, centred on Jubilee Tower, Darwen and Darwen Moor. The race organised by Jonathan Stubbs of the...
by admin | Nov 26, 2010 | General news
For the fourth year running our Annual Ceilidh took place tonight under the organisation of our Support Group, having been organised up to and including 2006 by the call out team members. Taking place at the excellent venue and usual team Ceilidh location of St...
by admin | Nov 25, 2010 | General news
This evening Team Training Officer Elaine Gilliland, Equipment Officer Paul Brain and Trainee Team member John Fletcher journeyed straight from their ISAC course (see previous news entry today) to attend the 2nd North Wales Mountain Medicine Forum at Bangor Hospital....
