May 2005

.. on raising, so far, over £200 in sponsorship money, after she ran in the BUPA Manchester Run.

Team Supporter Emma Peel, displays her medal and runners T-Shirt, after raising funds for the Team

The whole Team would like to thank Emma for her fantastic efforts and we hear brother Iain, Vehicles Officer for the Team, is giving her feet a needed massage.

Congratulations from all the team to our two new trainee team members, Lisa Fair and Dave Sawyer who have both successfully completed their probationary period with the team. Lisa Fair, aged 27, a finance and administration manager, and Dave Sawyer, aged 33, a Support Technician, will both now embark on a 12 month period as trainee team members prior to becoming full team members.

With the news that we ar soon to loose a small number of callout list members to pastures new over summer, we have decided to bring forward our next potential new member induction sessions from November into July. The dates for anybody in joining the team are the evening of Tuesday 12^th July, and all day Sunday 17^th July, please note if you are interested in joining the team, you must attend both of these sessions. (For further information see our “Membership” section on this website)

So far, we have to date 17 interested persons in joining, since our last induction sessions which only took place early April this year (so there is a lot of interest out there in joining the team).

The second meeting of our newly formed Team Support Group took place this evening with seven members of the support group attending the meeting, under the direction of our Fundraising Officer Mark Dooley.

As this is only the second meeting, the support group members are still coming to terms with the enormous task facing them, not just in fundraising but also general support of the team.

One of the main tasks of this evening was to measure up all our support group members for their distinctive navy blue coloured summer shirts and sweatshirts featuring the team logo. They will also be issued with the same Keela Odin jacket as all active callout list team members are issued with.

With this kit, the team support group will enjoy the same corporate image as our active callout list membership (albeit our callout members obviously have considerably more items of team issued clothing at their disposal).

The next meeting of the support group will include a presentation by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes on the operational workload of the team, to further familarise and integrate the support group members with the work of the team.