by admin | Nov 9, 2002 | General news
Courtesy of the Sainsbury store in Leigh, the team held a collection day, raising thanks to the generosity of shoppers, £160.20.
by admin | Nov 6, 2002 | General news
Today saw a group of 10 regular drivers get better acquainted with winter driver skills, such as putting on snow chains, use of the Hi-Lift jack, towing procedures. This was undertaken in the nice dry and warm main workshop of Greater Manchester Waste Ltd in Bolton,...
by admin | Nov 6, 2002 | General news
Some news which appears somewhat late, we are pleased to announce that 22 of our team members have been honoured in this , the Queen’s Golden Jubilee year, to receive the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, which has been issued to those in the Armed services...
by admin | Nov 3, 2002 | 2002, Incident
Today saw us called by GMP to help evacuate a female with suspected broken leg and pelvic injury. Three Landrovers went to the Terraced Gardens in Rivington, to meet up with ex Team member Dave Kehoe, who is also a Sergeant with GMP. We quickly arrived at the casualty...
by admin | Oct 29, 2002 | Donations, General news
Following our provision of Standby Rescue Cover to the October 6th Blackburn Duathlon, [for details see earlier entry] on 31st October we were pleased to receive a fantastic £150 donation from the organisers, Blackburn Road Runners.
by admin | Oct 26, 2002 | General news
This evening saw Team members out again collecting at the Safeway, Harwood store. Many, many thanks indeed to the generous shoppers of Safeway as you contributed £511.51 in donations to our Team. This is a large amount of money which the public of Bolton have...
by admin | Oct 24, 2002 | Donations, General news
Today we received a fantastic and very generous donation of £100 from the Soroptimists of Wigan. Following on from a lecture the Team did last year.
by admin | Oct 21, 2002 | Donations, General news
October has been a very busy month for unsolicited donations. They include the following – Stanrose Ladies Club £15, Inner Wheel, Horwich £100, Mrs E Lomax £10, Alan Taylor & colleagues at Mach Aire £50. Our Fundraising Officer Mike...
by admin | Oct 20, 2002 | Donations, General news
Special thanks to Mid-Cheshire Amateur Operatic Society of Barnton, Cheshire, for a very generous £50 donation. This came about because our Secretary, Dave Healey, did a spot of freelance sound engineering [his main day job] for their current production, this...
by admin | Oct 18, 2002 | General news
Today saw a small number of Team members provided a On-Scene Standby Rescue Cover for Rivington & Blackrod High School annual walk around Rivington & Rivington Pike. The walk involved all 1600 pupils of the school & staff, took place on a beautiful...
