by admin | Jan 23, 2010 | General news
Readers of our website may recall that on Saturday 17th October 2009, a group of team members journeyed to RAF Valley to undertake Sea King rescue helicopter familiarisation training. (See account dated the same) The second group was scheduled to go on 14th November,...
by admin | Jan 21, 2010 | General news
Since advertising for new call out list members it’s true to say we were overwhelmed with potential membership enquiries, some less serious than others but overall resulting in 48x people expressing an initial interest in joining the team. Some 40x of these...
by admin | Jan 21, 2010 | General news
This afternoon our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE answered a pager call from Lancashire Constabulary, requesting the teams possible assistance with a search for a missing man in the Scorton area of Lancashire. This search was within the operational area of our...
by admin | Jan 20, 2010 | General news
At present our team benefits from data link and radio equipment which gives us direct contact with NWAS (Manchester) and to a slightly lesser degree with NWAS (Lancashire). With the migration of all the statutory emergency services, including NWAS, to the O2 Airwaves...
by admin | Jan 20, 2010 | Donations, General news
Steve Farnan of Bamber Bridge was due to attend our January 2010 new member intake sessions but due to family issues at the last moment, he found himself unable to attend such. We offered to refund in view of his circumsatnces his £7.50 booking confirmation,...
by admin | Jan 19, 2010 | General news
This evening our Team Leader received a telephone call from a very kind Bolton lady who in lieu of presents for her 60th Birthday today, decided to ask all her family, friends and colleagues, to instead consider making a donation to the Bolton Mountain Rescue Team....
by admin | Jan 19, 2010 | Donations, General news
Today we are pleased to announce a donation of £20.00 from Pauline and Michael Williams of Bolton. In a letter accompanying their very kind donation, they stated simply, “Just to say thank you for all you do.” Such kind and sincere comments on the...
by admin | Jan 18, 2010 | Donations, General news
Today we received a very kind £15.00 donation from Teresa Holland, following her receipt of a Mountain Rescue England and Wales Goodyear Tyres sponsored 2010 Calendar. (Please also see website ’news’ articles dated Saturday 5th December 2009,...
by admin | Jan 18, 2010 | Donations, General news
Regular readers will know that Jim Fletcher and the members of the ’Shed’ at Belthorn, Darwen, are stalwart supporters of the team, having made a number of large donations to the team over a great many years now. Today we are very pleased to announce yet...
by admin | Jan 17, 2010 | Donations, General news
Today the team received a very kind £100.00 donation from a member of the public who wishes to remain anonymous. This extremely generous person decided to make this donation after reading about the team’s experiences over the past few weeks, namely during...
