by admin | Sep 7, 2014 | Donations
This evening three of our team operational members, Equipment Officer – Base / HQ Paul Copley, Treasurer Martin Banks and very long serving Gillian Leigh, were guests of Bolton Lads and Girls Club Graduation Evening at the Platinum Suite, Bolton Wanderers Football... by admin | Sep 7, 2014 | Donations, General news
Regular readers of our website may be aware of the support given to the team by Susan Rigby of SK-Art Photography, who has been a long-standing supporter of the Bolton MRT. Recently Susan contacted the team to let us know of her wish to hand over a donation arising as... by admin | Sep 7, 2014 | General news, Lectures/Presentations/Displays
This afternoon Bolton MRT team member Jess Ellsmore and trainee search dog Blitz returned from the SARDA England training weekend held at Ingleton, in the Yorkshire Dales. A more detailed report on this weekend will appear here shortly from trainee air-scenting... by admin | Sep 7, 2014 | General news
Early this afternoon, immediately following the conclusion of incident 79/2014, six team members took our 3.4m long semi-rigid inflatable SAR boat out onto the waters of High Rid reservoir, Bolton, with the primary aim of continuing the “running in” period... by admin | Sep 7, 2014 | General news
We’re now aware that two other UK search & rescue organisations (in addition to ourselves) are all in the running for a local grant of up to £3,000 from the Lloyds Community Fund. Our colleagues at Oldham Mountain Rescue Team and Norfolk Lowland Search &... by admin | Sep 7, 2014 | Donations
Further to a kind recent £9.97p donation, today we are pleased to report a further donation from Dr Paul Glossop of £2.48p via the Charities Aid Foundation, our online donations portal. by admin | Sep 7, 2014 | General news
For a great many years we have given away at team displays a team sticky badge to all who have kindly wanted to display such. In the form of a simple blue and white roundel ‘Bolton Mountain Rescue Team sticky label badge’ the original design has served us well,... by admin | Sep 7, 2014 | 2014, Incident
Early this morning three very experienced mountain bikers set off for a ride taking in the Tockholes area. At just before 09:00, one of the experienced riders, a 61 year old male from Bolton, took a fall resulting in suspected multiple injuries. His two colleagues... by admin | Sep 4, 2014 | Training
Last nights Wednesday evening weekly exercise was organised by our Equipment Officer – Water, Dave Cook, and gave those involved at the ‘exercise’ casualty site a problem we do not normally encounter. The exercise commenced within the car park of Dunscar Golf Club in... by admin | Sep 2, 2014 | Lectures/Presentations/Displays
This evening we recommenced our lecture presentations on the work of the team, after a short late summer recess, to interested members of the Lancashire Mountaineering Club, at their meeting venue of the Belmont Bull Public House, Belmont. On hand to discuss the work...