by admin | Sep 24, 2010 | General news
This evening the first night of the Edgworth Real Ale Festival got underway, with team members due to attend to put on a small equipment demonstration. As a result of last year’s Edgworth Real Ale Festival, with their kind £6,000.00 donation, the team was...
by admin | Sep 24, 2010 | General news
This evening the team provided standby emergency cover for the Rossendale and Pendle MRT, thereby allowing them to enjoy their Annual Team Dinner without being interrupted by having to attend a Call Out. In the event no call outs happened in the RPMRT area, so we got...
by admin | Sep 24, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 16.03hrs this afternoon we were paged by Greater Manchester Police to respond and join in with a search for a missing farmer on the outskirts of Westhoughton, with concern for his wellbeing mounting due to his age. The 83 years old missing farmer, resident at...
by admin | Sep 24, 2010 | Donations, General news
The South Lancashire Section of the Caravan Club are currently sponsoring the team as part of their Charity Year 2010-2011 events. Their intention is to kindly hand over their total monies raised at the end of their Charity Year in June 2011. However today we received...
by admin | Sep 23, 2010 | General news
Since reopening our Call Out list recruitment on Sunday 12th September, with regards to our ’November 2010 new member intake sessions,’ to date this evening we have received fourteen on line potential membership applications and one postal application. Any...
by admin | Sep 23, 2010 | Donations, General news
In mid-January 2010 we found out that we had been named as a Charity Beneficiary in the will of the late Miss Jean Noreen Redwood of Darwen, who sadly passed away on 29th October 2009. Jean also kindly named a great many others in her will as beneficiaries, including...
by admin | Sep 22, 2010 | General news
Further strengthening the relationship the Bolton MRT enjoys with the British Red Cross, this afternoon the team signed a Memorandum of Understanding in regards to making operational use of the British Red Cross Fire and Emergency Support Service. (FESS) Our Team...
by admin | Sep 21, 2010 | General news
This evening, a total of 25 Beaver Scouts descended onto the Bolton MRT’s Ladybridge Hall base, specifically for the purpose of their Water Safety badge. Team members Fred Taylor and Steve Fletcher hosted the visit, which began with a short slideshow on the...
by admin | Sep 19, 2010 | General news
Even our regular readers may not realise we sometimes add to articles already reported on our website, whether that be photographs, additional photographs or extra narrative. So please check out our report on the Mountain Rescue Conference dated Sunday 12th September...
by admin | Sep 18, 2010 | General news
Since reopening our Call Out list recruitment just under a week ago, with regards to our ’November 2010 new member intake sessions,’ to date this morning we have received ten on line potential membership applications and one postal application. Any persons...
