by admin | Apr 7, 2012 | General news
Today the team provided ‘Standby Rescue Cover’ for the annual Easter Saturday Rivington Pike Fell Race. Organised by Horwich RMI Harriers and Athletics Club, this short distance but gruelling height gain (And immediate height loss on the return stretch !)...
by admin | Apr 7, 2012 | Donations, General news
Today we are pleased to announce the receipt of a £50.00 donation from our friends and supporters at Milliken Industrials Limited, arising from a talk given by Team Call Out list member and former SARDA Dog Handler Dave Marsh and our Team President Bob...
by admin | Apr 6, 2012 | General news
At 16.09hrs, the team was paged by Lancashire Constabulary regards its assistance in an urgent search for a missing person. With seventeen team members in four team vehicles, still present in the Rivington area, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE contacted the Police,...
by admin | Apr 6, 2012 | Donations, General news
This afternoon, in our BM4 Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance vehicle, team members Mike Marsh, Mike O’Brien, Tony Dawson, David Crawford and Kris Kilshaw, journeyed to Belthorn, Darwen to see our dear friend Jim Fletcher, of the ‘Shed’ Belthorn...
by admin | Apr 6, 2012 | General news
With a tradition going back over a hundred years, every Good Friday (Regardless of the weather) a Fair has been held in close proximity to the high moorland landmark of Rivington Pike, with the Fair itself being set up on the moorland road of Georges Lane (Now an...
by admin | Apr 5, 2012 | General news
We are pleased to announce the income from our community collecting boxes for March 2012 totalled £178.05p (compared with £153.62p in March 2011). This brings the total so far for 2012 to an encouraging £815.20p (£926.69p for the same period in...