by admin | Jan 1, 2015 | Donations, General news
Each month we report on this website how much we collect from the collection boxes we have dotted around the team’s area. Occasionally we will highlight a site which has collected a particularly large amount for us, but all of us at Bolton Mountain Rescue are... by admin | Jan 1, 2015 | Donations, General news
We are very pleased to announce our December 2014 month end collection box figures, with £304.12 collected, against £218.59 for December 2013. Our grand total for donations from Collection Boxes during 2014 is a very pleasing £3,232.29 compared to £2,754.36 for 2013,... by admin | Dec 31, 2014 | General news
This evening as with all previous New Year Eve’s (For seventeen years now, commencing on 31st December 1998) the team had all four of it’s Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulances, its Minibus Ambulance and our Incident Control Vehicle available, at the disposal of NWAS... by admin | Dec 28, 2014 | General news
At 13.00hrs this sunny afternoon, with snow still on the local moors, our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE was contacted directly by NWAS Lancashire EOC, requesting the teams assistance with a local incident. At the time Garry was travelling up to the Lake District for a... by admin | Dec 26, 2014 | General news
Some regular readers may recall that we decided this year to replace our team issue mountain jackets, namely our Keela Munro jackets, originally purchased for every operational call out list member in January 2004. Following an exhaustive evaluation period of many... by admin | Dec 26, 2014 | General news
With the Boxing Day festivities at Rivington including the traditional meeting of the Holcombe Hunt, for a great many years we have had a team presence in the area throughout this day. Meeting at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ at 11.30hrs, three Team Land Rover...