by admin | Jan 12, 2012 | Donations, General news
Today via the Charities Aid Foundation, our online donation tool, we are very pleased to announce the receipt of a kind £11.86p donation from Mr Les Shorrock and our friends at United Reformed Church of St Andrew and St George, St Georges Road, Bolton. The whole...
by admin | Jan 11, 2012 | Donations, General news
On Monday 2nd January this year we were involved in assisting NWAS (Manchester) with the rescue of a woman, who had injured her knee in a fall whilst out walking with her husband in the Terraced Gardens at Rivington. (Please see website ‘news’ report dated...
by admin | Jan 10, 2012 | Donations, General news
Today we are pleased to announce the receipt of a very kind donation from Trafford Walkers. In passing on their appreciated £100.00 donation, Mike Graves, Honorary Secretary for Trafford Walkers explained; “Our Club (Trafford Walkers) recently decided to...
by admin | Jan 9, 2012 | Donations, General news
Today we are very pleased to report an appreciated and thoughtful donation of £50.00 from team supporter Mr.Ismail Momoniat of Bolton, who sent his donation to us via the Charities Aid Foundation. The whole team extends its sincere thanks to Mr.Ismail Momoniat...
by admin | Jan 7, 2012 | Donations, General news
We are very pleased to report today our first donation of 2012, and what a generous donation it is too. Our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE has received in the post today a letter from Anthony J Dewhurst, Solicitor of Anderton, Chorley, who informed Garry that alongside...
by admin | Jan 3, 2012 | General news
We are very happy to report that our collection boxes in December 2011 raised the grand amount of £174.16p (Compared to £234.57p in December 2010) Our year total for 2011 from collecting box income was a staggering £4,234.29p (Compared to...
by admin | Jan 3, 2012 | General news
In the early hours of New Years Day morning we had a surprise visitor to our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ in the guise of former team call out list member Steve Berry. (Who had just come off ‘call’ in his job with the Environment Agency) Knowing we too were...
by admin | Jan 3, 2012 | General news
Each month we report on this website how much we collect each month from the collection boxes we have dotted around the teams area. We will occasionally highlight a site which has collected a particularly large amount for us, but all of us at Bolton Mountain Rescue...
by admin | Jan 2, 2012 | 2012, Incident
With four team members co-incidentally at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ carrying out various maintenance and administrative tasks, we were contacted directly by NWAS (Manchester) Emergency Control Centre at 15.36hrs via radio link regards the report of an injured...
by admin | Jan 1, 2012 | 2012, Incident
As part of the NWAS (GMA) pre-arranged plan to cope with peak demand calls during the New Year’s celebrations, the Team continued to directly assist NWAS (GMA) with emergency ambulance calls throughout the early hours of New Year’s Day. 12x team members mobilised to...