General news

Mar 20 2018

Team Changes at this Years AGM

Last Wednesday evening Bolton MRT held its Annual General Meeting where a new Team Leader, Steve Fletcher was elected. Steve replaces Alistair Greenough, who has held the position for 2 years.

A new secretary was also elected; Paul Brain. Paul takes over the role from Gillian Gregory who has been secretary for the past 12 years. Gillian has worked tirelessly, often behind the scenes, ensuring correspondence is kept up to date and taking minutes of meetings. She has been a member of the support group for a great many years working selflessly to help raise funds, raise the profile of the work of the team and provide very welcome refreshments at team training events and call outs. Gillian was presented with a bouquet of flowers in recognition and thanks for all her hard work.

John Ryan and Dave Conn both stepped up into new roles, namely Equipment Officer (Medical) and Equipment Officer (Comms and Lighting) respectively.

Steve James was also elected to be one of the 5 Assistant Team Leaders

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SimonYates

Mar 3 2018

Guest Speaker Helps Rescue Team Celebrate 50 Years

Bolton Mountain Rescue Team are delighted to be able to welcome Simon Yates; the explorer, mountaineer and author, to tell tales of his escapades in some of the remotest regions on the planet. Simon has had many years’ experience of climbing mountains on every continent and exploring some of the world’s most uninhabitable areas. He first came to prominence when, whilst climbing Suila Grande in the Peruvian Andes with Jo Simspon, an epic rescue mission turned into near tragedy when Simon believed his friend to have died in a deep crevasse and needed to leave him on the mountainside. These exploits were made into a book and a film ‘Touching the Void’. Since then Simon has gone on to achieve , more successful journeys.

The evening will be held on Wednesday 11th April 2018, at De Vere Whites Hotel. The talk will start at 7:30 but prior to that there will be the opportunity to meet Simon in person and maybe even snap up a signed copy of one of his books of his adventures. Tickets cost £7.50 and are available by emailing gill.leigh@boltonmrt.org.uk

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Feb 24 2018

Thanks to the Chetham Arms, Chapeltown

Our Support Group member, Iain Clarkson, recently visited The Chetham Arms, Chapeltown, to present their staff with a special plaque of thanks.

This was commissioned to mark them raising a fantastic £126.45 from their Bolton Mountain Rescue Team charity collection box during 2017.

We have nearly one hundred charity boxes situated in various locations throughout our operational area and are very grateful for the regular income they generate – so huge thanks to The Chetham Arms and all our other host sites and huge thanks to their customers who drop their donations into the boxes.

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Feb 23 2018

Banner donated by Rider Levett Bucknall of Manchester

Our Support Group member, Aron Kirsh, who is employed as a Building Surveyor with Rider Levett Bucknall of Salford Quays, recently had a great deal of support from his colleague, Tom Giddings, with the design of a weatherproof outdoor banner highlighting the voluntary work undertaken by Bolton Mountain Rescue Team.  Not only that, but the company kindly agreed to sponsor the production of the banner and also donated £41.75 from office colleagues.

We are very grateful for this generous support from Rider Levett Bucknall and their support of their employee, Aron, in his voluntary work with our Team.

 

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Feb 23 2018

Support Group Member says Farewell

Paul Hurst, one of our Support Group members, who joined the group exactly a year ago, has tendered his resignation. Paul has been an enthusiastic member of the Support Group, assisting with catering on exercises, fundraising events, supermarket collections, community collecting boxes, and lectures to interested groups at our HQ.

We have very much appreciated all Paul’s help and skills and wish him well for the future.

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