by admin | Aug 29, 2007 | Donations, General news
Today we received a large number of individual donations amounting in total to £395, all in the memory of Mrs. Ann Hill, who died on the 8th July 2007. Mrs. Ann Hill was the mother of former team member Howard Hill, a team member from November 1968 until his...
by admin | Aug 25, 2007 | Donations, General news
Today we received an anonymous donation of £15.00 via an internet donation through the Charities Aid Foundation. As always we are very grateful to our anonymous friend(s) who made this donation.
by admin | Aug 22, 2007 | General news
The team estimates that it has annual running costs amounting to circa £26,000.00 which works out at about £72.00 a day. Today we received a letter from very valued team supporter David Bisset, who regular readers will recall was present at a rock climbing...
by admin | Aug 18, 2007 | Donations, General news
This morning we received a very kind £50.00 donation from the members of Bolton and District Group of Advanced Motorists. Their donation was thanks for our responding to an incident involving one of their members, Lyn Entwistle, who sustained a fractured ankle...
by admin | Aug 18, 2007 | General news
For many years now the team has sent representatives and a vehicle to the annual Darwen Gala, with this year being no exception. Unfortunately the weather was unseasonally wet and cold, which greatly affected the visitors to the Gala, and prevented the four team...
by admin | Aug 18, 2007 | General news
Just a short distance away from the Darwen Gala event, weather wise things were no different at the Belthorn Village Party in the Park event, where a Team Landrover Ambulance also attended along with five team members. Again heavy rain meant we couldn’t get out...
by admin | Aug 16, 2007 | General news
We often get asked by persons enquiring of the team what age range do we encompass, so perhaps it is opportune to congratulate our youngest operational Call Out list member, Matthew Hailwood, who joined the team in February this year, a Happy 18th Birthday as of 27th...
by admin | Aug 15, 2007 | 2007, Incident
At the conclusion of the previous incident, NWAS (GMA) PEC, contacted our Team Leader requesting our BM4 Landrover Ambulance, with four crew on board, to respond to a nearby emergency and offer help upto the arrival of the responding NWAS (GMA) Emergency Ambulance...
by admin | Aug 15, 2007 | 2007, Incident
As team members were just getting into the start of one of our routine Wednesday evening search and rescue exercises (the scenario being a fallen climber and missing informant, in the Ousel Nest Quarry area overlooking Jumbles Reservoir), our Team Leader was contacted...
by admin | Aug 14, 2007 | Donations, General news
This evening we welcomed a visit to our Ladybridge Hall base by the members of The Rotary Club of Astley. The large number of visitors from Astley Rotary packed into our base to be given an introduction on the workings of the team by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes, who...
