by admin | Jan 16, 2010 | Donations, General news
Today the team received a £750.00 donation from 2:09 Events Limited, arising from the team’s attendance at the Saab Salomon Rivington Half Marathon event, held on 19th September 2009 (see #article#2606#previous article of the same date.#) The event in...
by admin | Jan 16, 2010 | Donations, General news
Today the team received a generous £50.00 donation from Mr. Ismail Momoniat of Bolton, who sent the money to us via the Charities Aid Foundation. Mr. Momoniat’s donation came with the comment that we should “keep up the good work!”; an...
by admin | Jan 13, 2010 | Donations, General news
Tonight Bolton MRT were visited by Craig Knights, Phil Stephenson, Barney Wharton-Jones and Nick Skelly of the Bolton and District Round Table, a registered charity that has chosen to support Bolton MRT as their Chairman’s Charity in 2009/10. (We announced this...
by admin | Jan 13, 2010 | General news
We have now received to date 40 on line membership applications and 8 letters and emails to join the team, all of whom have received an invitation to attend our Thursday evening January 21st 2010 and all day Sunday January 24th 2010 recruitment sessions. To date 23...
by admin | Jan 13, 2010 | Donations, General news
Today the team received a £20 donation from Richard Jackson of S.O.S. Homecare. Team member Dave Carter, whilst working for Richard, received payment for a plumbing job and Richard kindly added £20.00 after hearing about the work that the team has been...
by admin | Jan 13, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 17:58 this evening our Team Leader Garry Rhodes was contacted by the Team Leader of Rossendale & Pendle MRT, Andy Simpson, to request our assistance at an incident in Ramsbottom, where an NWAS ambulance was stuck on the icy road and where they also required...
by admin | Jan 13, 2010 | General news
This afternoon, team members Elaine Gilliland and Stephen Kenworthy were invited to sit on the couch at Channel M Today, (a news programme on the regional TV channel, “Channel M”) to comment on the team’s involvement in the birth of Leah Fane,...
by admin | Jan 13, 2010 | Donations, General news
Today, after team members had returned from the major incident standby in West Yorkshire and were about to return home from our Ladybridge Hall base, a knock on the door downstairs was heard, with a member of the public asking “any chance of a tow?” Again...
by admin | Jan 13, 2010 | 2010, Incident
At 11.04hrs this morning the team was paged by NWAS (Manchester) as part of a request to send Mountain Rescue resources into West Yorkshire, to assist Yorkshire Ambulance Service due to adverse wintry conditions affecting the West Yorkshire region. NWAS (Manchester)...
by admin | Jan 13, 2010 | General news
With the huge increase in the usage of our four Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance vehicles over the last few weeks thankfully they have held up well. Our BM1,2 and 3 vehicles were purchased new in August 1999, our BM4 vehicle was purchased new in August 2003....
