by admin | May 22, 2013 | Donations, General news
On Saturday 11th May 2013, we reported within our website on our provision of standby rescue cover for the annual Belmont Fell Races. (See website report dated the same) Today we are very pleased to announce the receipt of a wonderful and much appreciated donation of...
by admin | May 22, 2013 | Donations, General news
We are pleased to announce today the wonderful receipt of a fantastic £200.00 donation from our very valued and appreciated friends at the Rotary Club of Darwen. The Bolton MRT has benefitted for a great many years now from the kind and thoughtful generosity of...
by admin | May 22, 2013 | Donations, General news
At the kind and thoughtful invitation of Colin Roberts, Treasurer of Turton Rotary Club, and on behalf of the President of the Club, Paul Neary, we have been invited to attend their annual Club Donations / President’s Charitable Donations 2013 Ceremony. We have...
by admin | May 20, 2013 | General news
Each year members of New Bury Voluntary Youth Club take on a challenging event for a local charity. In 2011 they raised an amazing £2,725.00 for Bolton Hospice by climbing the Three Peaks (Ben Nevis, Scafell, Snowdon) and then cycled Bolton – Workington...
by admin | May 20, 2013 | Donations, General news
We are very pleased to announce another anonymous donation from a kind team supporter, to the total of £39.00. This very thoughtful donation has been made with a specific instruction on how to utilise the money, which we will honour.
by admin | May 18, 2013 | General news
We would like to express our thanks to our neighbouring MRT colleagues at Rossendale and Pendle MRT and Bowland Pennine MRT for jointly kindly providing emergency response cover for our team operational area, last night and into this morning, enabling all our members...
by admin | May 18, 2013 | General news
This afternoon, ‘fresh’ from the previous evenings Bolton MRT Annual Team Dinner our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, attended the AGM of our national organisation, Mountain Rescue England and Wales, which was immediately followed by the Business Meeting,...
by admin | May 18, 2013 | General news
As part of a testing trial within mountain rescue, today our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE alongside other representatives of MPSRO teams, received from John Parish, MPSRO Equipment Officer, two items of Heat Reflective equipment from SURVIVAWEAR.COM Received were a...
by admin | May 17, 2013 | General news
Organised very capably again this year by team member Gillian Leigh, (with help from her husband, ex team member and former Deputy Team Leader Ian), the evening’s meal and after dinner entertainment attracted sixty five guests. Those attending included most of...
by admin | May 16, 2013 | General news
This evening at the AGM of the MPSRO, our regional mountain rescue organisation, Bolton MRT team member and immediate past Training Officer, Elaine Gilliland was re-elected to the post of Regional Training Officer.