by admin | Feb 3, 2013 | General news
In late October last year team call out list members Neil Aspinall and Martin Banks met with Brian Jones of BCP Fluted Packaging who had expressed an interest in supporting the team. After discussions Brian very kindly agreed to support the purchase of essential... by admin | Feb 2, 2013 | General news
Today our Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon and Call Out contact Mike Marsh, attended this years National Team Leader Day. The day took place at the Crosthwaite Centre, Keswick, and attracted a target audience from Mountain Rescue Team Leaders, Deputy Leaders and... by admin | Feb 1, 2013 | General news
We are very pleased to announce our January month end 2013 collection box figures, with £166.19p collected, against £387.80p for January 2012. We currently have 129x collection boxes out and about in the teams operational area and with a small number of... by admin | Feb 1, 2013 | General news
We would like to extend thanks to our colleagues at Langdale Ambleside MRT for sending to us a complimentary copy of their excellent publication ‘Casualty Care revision in Mountain Rescue,’ 1st Edition, published November 2012. Complimentary copies we... by admin | Jan 31, 2013 | General news
To all our readers we can officially announce today the date of this years Greater Manchester Emergency Services (Third) Annual Open Day, at the great venue yet again of the Trafford Centre, Manchester, between 10.00hrs and 17.00hrs on Thursday 8th August 2013. Ben... by admin | Jan 30, 2013 | General news
We would like to express our sincere thanks to Cheshire Search and Rescue Team member Rob Elton, a full time Paramedic with NWAS (Manchester) based in the South Manchester area, who this evening kindly provided his time to present a session on ‘Primary Care... by admin | Jan 30, 2013 | 2013, Incident
Yesterday evening our specialist Mountain Rescue Trailing Dog Handler Steve Nelson was contacted to lend his assistance to an on going search operation to locate a missing woman in the North Yorkshire Police area of operations. Early this morning at 07.30hrs Steve... by admin | Jan 29, 2013 | General news
This afternoon our Team President Bob Hutchinson, was the Guest Speaker at a meeting of the Westhoughton Visiting Service. Held at their meeting venue of Westhoughton Community Learning Centre, on Central Drive, Westhoughton, Bob outlined the work of the team, and was... by admin | Jan 29, 2013 | Donations, General news
Not previously reported, was the kind impromptu donation of £10.00 from the male casualty we attended to on Incident 30 during the very snowy morning of Saturday 26th January 2013, which was passed on to the team members treating him. by admin | Jan 29, 2013 | General news
Today we are very pleased to announce the receipt of yet another truly fantastic and very generous donation, this time of £137.00, from our much appreciated, very valued and incredibly supportive friends at Bolton H.F. Walking Club / H.F. Bolton Group. Christina...