by admin | Oct 27, 2011 | Donations, General news
Today we are very pleased to report the receipt under the AstraZeneca Plc Matched Giving Scheme, via the Charities Aid Foundation, of a £500.00 donation from Mr S. J. Hazlitt, an employee of AstraZeneca Plc. (On 24th February 2011, we reported an earlier...
by admin | Oct 27, 2011 | Donations, General news
We are very pleased to announce the receipt today of a generous £350.00 donation from our friends and supporters at Turton Rotary Club. In a kind letter to our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, the Treasurer of Turton Rotary Club explained that fellow Rotarian...
by admin | Oct 27, 2011 | General news
This evening Team Training Officer Elaine Gilliland and Team Call Out List Member Carly Raines were invited by the British Red Cross – Northern Division – to attend their annual social evening to give a talk on the work of Bolton Mountain Rescue Team. The...
by admin | Oct 26, 2011 | 2011, Incident
At 11:50 this morning, the team was paged by NWAS (Greater Manchester) Emergency Control Centre, who were requesting our assistance at an incident in the George’s Lane, Rivington area. Already in attendance at the scene of the incident was an NWAS RRV Paramedic who...
by admin | Oct 26, 2011 | General news
This evening our regular Wednesday evening weekly exercise took on the theme of a ’Halloween Family Fun evening,’ with team members being joined by partners, their children and friends of the team, all to join in a fun exercise. Organised superbly by Call...
by admin | Oct 24, 2011 | General news
Today our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE and Team Training Officer Elaine Gilliland received the following thanks from the Team Training Officer Graham Munns, of our colleagues at NEWSART regards their involvement in this years Joint Foundation Course in Mountain...
by admin | Oct 24, 2011 | General news
In February 2010 we were informed by the Solicitors, Bradshaws Hamer Park and Haworth of Blackpool, acting on behalf of the administration of the estate of the late Mrs Jennie Hoey, that the Bolton Mountain Rescue Team was bequeathed a share in the residue of her...
by admin | Oct 23, 2011 | General news
Following last weekends assessments in Bury St. Edmunds, where Bolton MRT member Dave Marsh took on a lead role in assessing six dogs for their suitability in Lowland search work, he then travelled over to the Mourne Mountains in Northern Ireland for a joint weekend...
by admin | Oct 23, 2011 | General news
For the seventh year running, the Team organised and took part in a fully residential Joint Foundation Course in Mountain Rescue based at the continuing excellent facilities of the Bolton Scout Trust Bibbys Farm Scout Campsite & Activity Centre, at Heath...
by admin | Oct 21, 2011 | Donations, General news
Today we are extremely pleased to announce the receipt of a very generous £500.00 donation under their ’Matched Giving Scheme’ from AstraZeneca Plc of Kingdom Street, London, via the Charities Aid Foundation. All at Bolton Mountain Rescue Team wish...