by admin | Mar 13, 2005 | Donations, General news
We are pleased to announce the donation today of 5 copies of the OS Forest of Bowland & Ribblesdale OL41 1:25000 maps by a team supporter. These maps join our extensive stock of local and regional area maps, largely donated by British Nuclear Fuels Ltd,...
by admin | Mar 12, 2005 | Donations, General news
Team members Richard Janicki, and our Fundraising Officer Mark Dooley, attended the early afternoon meeting of Manchester & District Keep Fit Association, at Radcliffe Civic Centre, to receive a donation. The ladies of the club last year decided to make us their...
by admin | Mar 12, 2005 | Donations, General news
With thanks to the 53rd Bolton Delph Hill Brownies, the team is very pleased to today accept a donation of £17.05p. The Brownies collected this money for us by filling smarties tubes with pennies!
by admin | Mar 11, 2005 | Donations, General news
The team today is pleased to announce the donation of £100 anonymously to the team (The trend of anonymous donations to the team is growing, which often leaves us puzzled as to who these wonderful supporters out there are).
by admin | Mar 10, 2005 | Donations, General news
Tony McNally, our Team Chairman was a guest at the Westhoughton Rotary Club Annual Charity Buffet Evening, held at The Masonic Hall, Westhoughton. A large number of local charities had been invited to the evening to receive donations from the Rotary Club, and after a...
by admin | Mar 9, 2005 | 2005, Incident
At 18:02, GMP contacted the team for assistance with a missing 68 year old man in the Abram area of Wigan. The man who is resident on a canal boat on Leeds – Liverpool canal, was reported missing to Police late the previous evening, sparking off a Police...
by admin | Mar 7, 2005 | Donations, General news
After initially testing a free sample product (the “Blizzard Survival Vest”) from Blizzard Protection Systems Ltd, which was given to the team at last year’s Mountain Rescue Conference, the team then entered a competition run by the company. We have...
by admin | Mar 6, 2005 | Donations, General news
Our Fundraising Officer, Mark Dooley, is pleased to announce today the receipt of a £300 cash donation, simply popped through his letterbox anonymously, with a note saying ’Please accept this donation for two Team supporter stickers.’ Of course it...
by admin | Mar 5, 2005 | General news
In what we believe to have been a unique locally-based training event involving different types of search dog, our search dog handler Dave Marsh with his search dog Chi journeyed to a demolished mill complex in Kearsley today to meet up with a GMP dog handler and...
by admin | Mar 5, 2005 | General news
Today as part of a long-running assistance to Bolton Countryside Ranger Service, by the team, for navigation training purposes, team members Andy Ryding and Dave Sarti presented an introductory course covering moorland navigation for newer members of the Bolton...
