2 Jan 2012:
We
have just
heard from Waitrose Saltash
that we managed to outshine their other
two charities by a considerable factor.
The upshot was that we got a staggering
70% of the vote, meaning £700
will be on its way to us! Also we helped
out with collecting in Peverell for
Drake Rotary and we've just had a
cheque for £340.
I think you'll agree - that is an
excellent start to the year!
4 Dec 11:
To
everyone who came to Sainsbury's on
Sunday and saw the team - Thanks
very much
for all your donations. We raised over
£950 with some more money to come in.
3 Dec 11:
Come and see us at Sainsbury's
Sunday 4 December. Bag packing and
merchandise on sale. See our land rover
and look at some of our equipment on
display.
1 Dec 11:
We have
been
nominated
as one
of the
charities
of the
month
for December
at the
Saltash
branch
of
Waitrose.
The branch nominated three charities
every month and shoppers vote for which
one they would like to support. Waitrose
then make
donations
to
reflect
this.
So
please
encourage
family
and
friends
who shop
at
Waitrose
to vote
for us!
2 Nov 11:
The road
from Two Bridges to Postbridge
is to be closed for resurfacing from 30
Nov to an anticipated 5 Dec. For further
details contact SW Highways on 01404
821500 and quote ref: TTR01100338
9 Oct 11:
We provide First Aid cover
for the
Autumn Trail race in Newnham Park. A wet
day, but only a couple of minor scrapes
to treat.
24 Aug 11:
In July
we were joined by the 10th
Plympton Guides.
They have chosen to sponsor the team
this year. The group
pose after a
successful search and rescue exercise on
Dartmoor.
23 Aug 11: Great Funding news!
£250 from
the West Devon Art Group, and £500 from
Capgemini (our Training Officers'
company)
16 Aug 11:
Search
and Rescue with the guides! On Tuesday 5
July we had the pleasure of showing 10th
Plympton Guides what we do on the moor.
10th Plympton Guides and their unit has
chosen Dartmoor Search and Rescue as
their charity to support this year. As a
result they want to find out more about
what we do. We used them as casualties,
and some joined in with the search
teams. Most had a go at carrying a Bell
stretcher as well.
Team picture
with the guides
20 July:
Many thanks to everyone involved with
the Midnight Madness Walk on 16/17 July.
We raised a huge amount as a result!
16 May 11: Well done to everyone
involved with Ten Tors.
The
weekend was a huge success. Whilst our
team was largely inactive, the 2400 kids
who participated in the event had
perfect weather and there were very few
fallouts.
5 May 11: We provide First Aid cover for
the Bere Alston 10K.
We even
get a mention in the Run Britain
website:
http://www.runbritain.com/events/report/bere-pen-10k/
10 Apr 11:
We raised
over £820
at our bag backing session at
Sainsbury's on 2 Apr. Many thanks to all
of you who donated.
19 Mar 11:
RAY MEARS LEADS TICK BITE PREVENTION
WEEK
Bushcraft
and Survival expert Ray Mears has joined
the fight against Lyme disease by
lending his support to tick-borne
disease charity BADA-UK (Borreliosis and
Associated Diseases Awareness-UK).
Tick Bite Prevention Week, which runs
from 11-17th April 2011, is an annual
programme which helps promote awareness
of tick-borne diseases and effective
tick bite prevention for at-risk groups.
According to the Health Protection
Agency, up to 3,000 people contract Lyme
disease (Borreliosis) from the bite of
an infected tick each year in the UK. As
a victim of Lyme disease himself, Ray
understands the importance of being
aware of ticks and the diseases they
carry, and of the preventative measures
that can be taken to help prevent ticks
from biting people and pets.
"I feel that there is not enough
awareness of Lyme disease in this
country, given the fact that in rare
cases it may become chronic", Ray said.
A dedicated website has been launched
offering advice on what to do if bitter
and how to stay protected in the warmer
months at
www.tickbitepreventionweek..org.
More information about Lyme disease and
BADA-UK can be found at
www.bada-uk.org.
15 Mar 11:
Rob Heath
announces that Toohey is now a fully
qualified trainee search dog!
See pictures of
her here
13 Feb 11:
Mountain
Rescue teams across the UK appear to
have won a long-running campaign to
reclaim the VAT spent on equipment. Read
more
here:
29 Jan 11:
See pictures of
our newest four legged recruit - Toohey!
25 Jan
11:
We can
confirm that the money raised by the
Plymouth Round Table will be used to
purchase two defibrillators.
10 Dec 10:
Hill and mountain walkers urged to
register for emergency SMS text service.
Walkers who visit areas with bad mobile
phone access can now register with a new
service that allows 999 calls to be made
via a text message.
Heather Morning, safety adviser with the
Mountaineering Council of Scotland, is
urging walkers and climbers to register
for this service in advance and not to
wait for an emergency. She says, "If you
cannot make voice calls, you can now
contact the 999 emergency services by
SMS text from your mobile phone. "This
is going to be particularly useful for
those needing 999 assistance in the
hills when mobile reception is poor and
there is not enough signal to make a
call."
The emergency SMS service was
established originally for deaf,
hard-of-hearing and speech-impaired
people. It allows users to contact the
UK 999 services by sending an SMS text
message.
Mountain Rescue Services in the UK are
usually coordinated by the police.
For more information and to register for
the emergency SMS service, visit
http://www.emergencysms.org.uk/
16 Nov 10:
Plympton Round Table
make generous donation to the team after a
Search and Rescue exercise on Dartmoor. Our
thanks to them not only for giving us some
money, but also for being such good
casualties!
1 Nov 10: The team takes possession of 6
Simoco Radios with
GPS
mics. Now we can't go anywhere without the
Search Managers knowing where we are! All
paid for courtesy of
Serco.
19 Oct 10:
Information released from the
South & Mid Wales Cave Rescue Team:
On
the 9th October the team (South
& Mid Wales Cave Rescue Team)
was involved in a joint
exercise with the Mountain Rescue Teams &
Search & Rescue Dogs Association. This
was a PR event sponsored by Goodyear who
have been sponsoring Mountain and cave
Rescue Teams in the UK. The venue for the
training was Penwyllt itself, and the aim of
the day was to set up a scenario that
reflected the work of the teams involved and
allowed the new laptops and search control
software, SARMAN, to be shown off to the
sponsors. This can be tied to GPS trackers
and allows superb monitoring of the teams
and equipment deployed on the hill.
Obviously a bit more problematic for cavers
but we are starting to use the software and
it is certainly proving to be a useful
control tool.
The days scenario involved two lost persons
who were meant to be walking part of the
Beacons way. This involved search sweeps on
the hill which found an injured walker who
report their colleague had ventured into a
cave. Que the cave rescue team! We initiate
a search of the Top entrance area of Ogof
Ffynnon Ddu and find the missing person
injured in the Upper Column Series. A medic
and stretcher team is dispatched and the
casualty rescued. We had a good mix of
people on the stretcher carry which went
well. thanks to Kate for putting up with
being rescued! On exiting the cave we are
met by photographers and film crew as we
carry out a handover to the MR teams.
Whilst obviously a bit contrived to fit in
with the PR function it was a useful day. It
was good to work with the MR teams and the
day built on the very positive joint
training that we were part of earlier this
year. there is definitely scope for further
joint trainings of this type.
I personally would also like to thank you
all for your support; I felt everyone’s
commitment was outstanding, you made
Goodyear feel that they were part of our
family, I couldn’t have asked for more.
A quote from Goodyear on Facebook;
Goodyear
Tyres - The Goodyear team are back in the
office following a spectacular weekend with
Mountain Rescue England and Wales learning
all about how they use the latest technology
to aid their search and rescue missions.
Watch this space to find out more
With your help I’m confident that Goodyear
will want to extend their sponsorship deal
with MREW, this in return will benefit all
teams.
Thank you on behalf of Mountain Rescue
England & Wales.
22 Sep 2010: Another
successful Lych Way Walk, despite lower numbers.
Excellent weather and chirpy walkers quickly made the 14
mile route with ease! Many thanks to you all for
sponsoring us at such an enjoyable event!
26 Aug 2010: Letters:
Ranulph Fiennes
requesting heroic stories and Alan Hinkes who is attempting all the highest points
in England starting 27 Aug.
7 Aug 2010:
A letter of thanks from
Brigadier Hodder for all our efforts during Ten Tors
5 Aug 2010:
Mule Bars offered to MR teams to
help keep them going during callouts. Our Equipment
Officer has placed an order with Mule Bar so rest
assured, we will be fuelled up at all times! Our thanks
to Mule Bar for providing this food.
2 Aug 2010:
Shop goes
live on the site. Paypal required.
23 Jun 2010: Donate via
our own Just Giving website (cancelled).
19 Jun 2010: Sainsbury's
present the team with their total amount raised over the
past year - £10,997. Many thanks to you and to
Sainsbury's for allowing us to be their charity of
choice.
18 Jun 2010: Rob Heath
and his new dog Toohey have started Search Dog training.
Twohey is an Australian Kelpie. Check out their
23 May 2010: Over the weekend
22/23 May 10 of the team became qualified Swift Water
Rescue Technicians.
11 May 2010: An excellent
Ten Tors. Well done to all the kids who made the event
such a success. All your hard work in training has
earned you all the respect of everyone who was helping
out on the event (as they do every year). Well Done!
4 - 6 May 2010: Watch
Spotlight to see the history of Ten Tors, Dartmoor
Rescue Group and more.
1-3 May 2010: Probably
our last attendance at Sainsbury's. Check back to see
how much we raised at this and the previous couple of
weekends.
20 Apr 2010: The Bishop
of Plymouth blessed our two new vehicles on the Hoe. The
Lord Mayor of Plymouth also attended along with a
representative of the University of Plymouth. Along with
the vehicles two plaques were also blessed. these will
be placed on the moor to provide the public with
information about the team and to commemorate those
members of the team who have passed away. See the Herald
for their press release and (hopefully) pictures.
10 Apr 2010: Richard
Thorne presented RAF Chivenor pilots a framed picture of
a Seaking which was taken during a training exercise
earlier in the year.
8 Apr 2010: The Bishop of
Plymouth will bless our two vehicles on the Hoe on
Tuesday 20 April at 6.30pm.
22 Mar 2010: 3 members of
Sainsburys have raised money for the team by jumping out
of a plane on a tandem skydive! Well done to Mark, Dave
and Helen.
15 Mar 2010: another
weekend of bag packing, flower wrapping and
merchandising over! We don't know the total yet, but as
soon as we do it will be posted here.
3 Mar 2010: We will be at
Sainsbury's on 13/14 Mar wrapping your flowers for
Mothering Sunday, and we will be at Saltash on 23 May
for ESRAD - the Emergency Services Road Awareness Day.
Come and visit the show, all emergency services will be
represented.
20 Jan 2010: We will be
at Sainsbury's on 13/14 Feb.
We are
40 years old
this year.
We will be celebrating with a special 40th Anniversary
dinner soon where various presentations will be made.
Happy Anniversary to us!
Congratulations to
Matt Robertson MBE - better known as Dog Matt from
the Tavistock team - for
receiving the MBE in the New Years Honours List!
13-14 Dec 2009: Another
successful weekend of bag packing at Sainsbury's. We don't
know the full total yet, but we hope we've topped £1000. Sunday was a very
bitterly cold day with the wind blowing across the front
of the store and those selling our merchandise were
seriously thinking about moving indoors!
1 Dec 2009: On a cold and
very wet night 7 members of Sainsbury's and their
families joined us out on the moor for a Search and
Rescue Exercise. All were deployed as casualties to
three separate sites. Two groups were found by foot
teams and the third by Sunny our Search Dog. All were
treated and returned safely to the car park either by
stretcher or by a walk-off. their successful find was
celebrated by some seasonal mince pies which went down a
real treat, especially as the rain decided to abate
later in the evening. May we thank all the casualties
for turning out on such an awful night and providing us
with casualties to enable us to carry out some very
valuable training.
23 Nov 2009: 8 of the
team passed the Casualty Care Exam over the weekend and
are now qualified Casualty Carers. Well done to you all!
17 Nov 2009: A message
from Sunny our Search Dog:
Just
to let you all know that last weekend my Dad took me up
to the (not so sunny) Peak District. Just to get my own
back for leaving me all night in a cold dark van with
Springer Spaniel Scoot and not left nice and comfy under
his bed at home, I dragged him up and down these very
steep and slippery hills and crags. I totally ignored
him, for a change and found in record time lots of nice
people who played with me and with my toy. I thought he
would be rather annoyed with me but at the end of the
weekend he looked really pleased! Humans - I just don't
understand them!
And a message from Alan his dog handler:
Yep we've gone and done it and become DSRT Plymouth's
first Full Grade Search Dog and Handler! What a
relief. Sunny really did work hard, ranged well and had
some really good strikes. I understand the assessors
were really impressed. What a star!
16 Nov 2009: Details of
walks organised by one of our members is posted on the
site. Click here for details
10 Nov 2009: Bridgestone
and National Tyres present the team with £250
from their 'pose with a Formula 1 car' event back in
September. Thanks guys!
7 Nov 2009: Planning for
the next bag packing at Sainsbury's is well under way.
Visit the team over the weekend 12/13 Dec. We'll be glad
to see you!
6 Nov 2009: Sainsbury's
HR Manager Jackie rang me today to say that a committee
of all the Sainsbury's Store managers voted to give us
half of £5000 which we will share with another
charity. This means another donation of
£1250. Excellent
news to round off a great week!
4 Nov 2009: Sainsbury's
Regional Colleagues Council present the team with a
cheque for £3000 as a result of all the bag packing the
team has done recently at the store at Marsh Mills. The
presentation took place at Lee Moor Church Hall. Handy Landy
and some team members were there and
the Sainsbury's staff all had a good look around it and saw a
demonstration of a stretcher being loaded on board. Many
thanks once again!
4 Nov 2009: Alan and
Search Dog Sunny get a callout to Maker, but are stood
down on arrival. Details on callout page.
18 Oct 2009: Our Land Rover gets a name -
Handy Landy. There will be an official naming ceremony.
Details to follow.
16 Oct 2009: A total of
£1149.66 was raised at
Sainsbury's. Many thanks to you the public for
continuing to support the team.
4 Oct 2009. The team were supporting the Abbots Way
walk today. Everything went well with no reported
problems.
3 Oct 2009: The team was active in Sainsbury's again
bag packing and selling merchandise.
28 Sep 2009:
Plymstock Road Runners donated
£300 to the team
from their annual race The Duckponds 7km Race.
25 Sep 2009: We have recently been given a
£500 grant
from HF
Holidays towards the cost of buying the team reflective
rucksack covers. This equipment will help make us much
more visible both on the hill and in the city, and who
knows, it might even keep our kit dry! A big thanks to HF
Holidays and Bill Ecclestone for their help and support.
20 Sep 2009: Another successful Lych Way Walk.
Although the numbers were down, the walk will still
generate much needed funds for the team.
10 Sep 2009: The team receive some cards from the
children of Dunstone Primary School.
6 Sep 2009:
The total we raised
over the whole weekend has been amended to
£2937.
Well done to everyone who helped out.
3 Sep
2009: Alan and Search Dog
Sunny have 2 callouts. See the
callout page for more info.
Bank Holiday weekend 29-31 August 2009: The team are
in action again at Sainsbury's:
 
20 August 2009: Both our new Search Management
Control Van and Land Rover have their new signage
completed.
26 July 2009. Latest callout. Click
here for more info.
19 July 2009: Lots of walkers take part in the
Midnight Madness Walk from Walkhampton Hall.
Over 1500 pounds raised.
5 July 2009: The team has just taken delivery of a second hand Land Rover
from Kendal MR team. We look forward to taking it on
its first callout.
4 July 2009: During the weekend the team went to Sainsbury's
to secure their sponsorship deal with the supermarket
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