by admin | Nov 16, 2005 | Donations, General news
Tonight Mark Scott (Treasurer), Lisa Fair (Fundraising Officer) and Dave Healey (Communications Officer) visited GMP Bolton Divisional HQ and Police Station on Crompton Way to be presented with a generous donation of £100 raised during the Open Day earlier in...
by admin | Nov 16, 2005 | Donations, General news
The team was pleased today to receive a £20.00 donation and very kind card of thanks from the man (and his partner and children) involved in incident 91/2005, Sunday November 6th, 2005. We understand that he is well on the way to recovery following an operation...
by admin | Nov 15, 2005 | General news
This evening six team members met with members of Horwich and Westhoughton Round Table, to give the Round Table members a short evening’s exercise experience of a moorland search and rescue incident. Conditions were just right, that is darkness, rain and very...
by admin | Nov 15, 2005 | General news
Held at our Ladybridge Hall Base and intended to clear our backlog of outstanding membership applications, some 20 enquiries/applications were sent out for this “Introduction to the Team” evening. Of eight people who were expected, six turned up, and were...
by admin | Nov 13, 2005 | 2005, Incident
Today whilst in attendance at the Remembrance Sunday Service at Lead Mines Clough, an 83 year old gentleman, present at the service and who had a previous history of angina, collapsed during the Service.He was immediately comforted by on scene Team members, including...
by admin | Nov 13, 2005 | General news
Today the Team was honoured as in previous years, to attend the Remembrance Sunday Service at the Bomber Memorial, Lead Mines Valley, Anglezarke. For the first time the Team placed a wreath on the memorial, honouring all military aircrew who had come to grief on the...
by admin | Nov 12, 2005 | General news
As on many previous occasions, the team was happy today to assist Bolton Countryside Ranger Service with some basic map and compass navigation instruction and training. Team members (and it goes without saying expert map readers) Andy Ryding and Dave Sarti met up with...
by admin | Nov 12, 2005 | Donations, General news
With 25x lectures and presentations completed to date this year by the team, over £650.00 has been directly raised from donations made at such lectures and presentations. This compares to £545.00 in 2004 and £633.41 in 2003. This is a tremendous...
by admin | Nov 11, 2005 | General news
Works are now well in hand with the full external and internal refurbishment of our Catering Trailer. Its now returned from North West Bus and Coach Repairs, ( who did such an excellent job on our new Control Trailer ) fully resplendent in a complete external respray,...
by admin | Nov 10, 2005 | General news
We are pleased to report the following kind comments expressed to the team recently via email, by two members of our Support Group ( husband and wife ) who had kindly helped provide catering on the recent Joint Foundation Course in Mountain Rescue, hosted by the...
