Visit to The Rivington

Visit to The Rivington

Today Assistant Team Leader Mark Scott headed for The Rivington, in Rivington Village, where the owners had kindly been raising money for the Team to help us restock in the wake of the Winter Hill Fire. They presented Mark with a cheque for the tremendous sum of...
Visit to The Rivington

Visit to Over-50s Friendship Group

Assistant Team Leader Mark Scott visited The Holiday Inn in Bolton Town Centre today. He was there to deliver an illustrated talk about the work of the Team to an over-50s Friendship Group who meet there regularly. The talk, which included photographs and videos taken...
Visit to The Rivington

Store Collection at ASDA Farnworth

On 30th June 2018, whilst most of the team was engaged assisting the Fire Service with the moorland fires at Rivington, five of our Support Group and one operational team member operated a rota to hold a charity collection in the entrance of ASDA’s store at...
Visit to The Rivington

Half Year Figures for Collection Boxes

We are pleased to report an income of £1,358.03 for the first six months of 2018 from our collection boxes located throughout the community in our operational area – from Darwen in the North to Wigan in the West, Broughton in the East and Manchester Airport to...
Visit to The Rivington

Attendance at Darwen 999 Day

Today, at the invitation of the organisers of Darwen 999 day taking place on Darwen Market Square one Support Group member attended this event with our Mountain Rescue Vehicle BM3 on display. Many other team members and vehicles were still committed to assisting the...
Visit to The Rivington

Incident 26-2018 – body recovery from Horrocks Moor

At 15:46 on Sunday 13th May we were contacted by North West Ambulance Service with the request to assist in the recovery of a body from Horrocks moor, off Coal Pit Road, Smithills. 15 team members attended this incident alongside colleagues from Greater Manchester...
Visit to The Rivington

MREW Annual Review 2018

Our representative body, Mountain Rescue (England & Wales) have released two documents our readers may be interested in reading. The MREW Annual Review 2018 gives a taste of what mountain rescue teams across England and Wales have been up to over the past 12...
Visit to The Rivington

In Memory of Derek Raymond Elrington (Bill)

Today we received a card in the post from Mark and Katherine Stacey and Richard Elrington. In the card was written: Please find enclosed £135 collected in lieu of flowers at my fathers Derek Raymond Elrington recent funeral. He loved the mountains and the local moors....
Visit to The Rivington

Donation from Bolton Video-Music Club

We are pleased to report a donation of £65 (£81 with gift aid) from Kevin Latham. Kevin has donated to the team before and runs Bolton Video-Music Club, a Jive club who meet at Regent Park Golf Club. The team would like to thank everyone who contributed to this kind...