by admin | May 28, 2015 | General news
Over the last few weeks we have made regular update reports on our request to encourage our many friends and supporters to vote for us for our Aviva Community Fund bid to gain a £5,000.00 award (please see website ‘News’ reports dated Friday 15th May, Saturday 16th... by admin | May 28, 2015 | General news
Yesterday our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE received a very kind hand written letter from Colin Roberts, Treasurer, Rotary Club of Turton. Garry has been invited to a charity beneficiaries presentation evening at the Rotary Club of Turton evening meeting of Thursday... by admin | May 27, 2015 | General news
This last weekend team member Nick Berry went away with his wife for a few days break in Derbyshire. Whilst away, his casualty care skills were called upon, as the following kind email received by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE this evening shows; “I’m writing... by admin | May 27, 2015 | Training
Tonight, our Training Officer Alistair Greenough organised a search and evacuation exercise for us all, in the deeply incised rocky sided and heavily wooded River Douglas valley at the Rivington and Horwich boundary. More familiarly known locally for generations as... by admin | May 27, 2015 | Donations
On Friday 22nd May 2015 we reported that on Thursday 21st May 2015 the team had received an email from Paul Wightman of the Rotary Club of Bolton Le Moors; “Dear sirs, As part of our contribution to the last “Ironman” event in Bolton, we nominated Bolton Mountain... by admin | May 27, 2015 | General news
Readers will recall our report with sadness, that following a long illness, Mrs Joan Charles, passed away on Friday 10th April, aged 71 years. Joan, along with her husband Len – who survives Joan, were both members of our Support Group in the late 1980s and in to the... by admin | May 27, 2015 | General news
Via our website we wish to acknowledge the recent kind donation to our team and other English and Welsh MRTs of four tabards to be used at certain incidents to identify MRT Incident Officers. The four tabards donated to us are all identified front and back as... by admin | May 26, 2015 | General news
Today our Training Officer Alistair Greenough visited the Haslingden Base / HQ of our close neighbours and colleagues at Rossendale and Pendle MRT, on a fact finding visit which looked at water search and rescue training and rope training methodologies and programmes... by admin | May 26, 2015 | General news
On Sunday 3rd May 2015, we assisted an NWAS Emergency Ambulance crew with the stretcher evacuation of a collapsed man from the edge of Sunnyhurst Wood, Darwen (Please see website incident report dated the same) Today our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE received a very... by admin | May 26, 2015 | General news
On Tuesday 24th February 2015, our Team President Bob Hutchinson journeyed to the evening meeting of Ramsbottom Soroptimists, who had invited him along to speak about the work of Bolton Mountain Rescue Team. Having served in the team as a Team Leader and Chairman, and...