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The Team is a voluntary organisation, available 24/7 365 days a year, to help hillgoers in need as well as aiding the wider community. Currently DFMRT has around 35 active members. We are based in Broughton in Furness. Registered Charity Number 117324
Today some of our team members were in County Durham assisting with the ongoing search for Jenny Hall, now in it’s fourth day. Mobile 3 was used as a control vehicle for LDSAMRA specialist drone teams who used bespoke automated searching software.
Our volunteers train several times every month to keep skills sharp ready for call outs. And what’s more fun than playing with stretchers and hanging round a crag on a Tuesday night anyway!?
Another great training session up the Duddon valley last night. Practicing complicated extraction of a casualty from a local crag.
Thanks also to Glencoe MRT who met us for a chat and a look around their base.
This weekend team members took the opportunity to get out and train on some core skills in the snowy hills of Glencoe. It was really valuable to practice using the stretcher on steep ground and treating casualties efficiently in true winter conditions.
Here’s our latest newsletter…
We look forward to sharing progress on the base build with you. Thank you all for your support and please do keep sharing our appeals, as we will need to keep fundraising to get the permanent base finished and kitted out.
As well as our routine fundraising we’ve been working towards finding money for our permanent base, so we can move out of the two unheated industrial units that we currently rent. We are now at the stage where, with the offer of a bridging loan should we need it, we can start the build in 2025.
Our volunteers, along with some of our trustees and supporters, have also taken part in many fundraising activities. We need to raise around £50000 a year for running costs and contribution towards eventual replacement of team vehicles.
As well as our call outs we have undergone a full calendar of training including updating our knowledge of casualty care, first aid, crag rescue, vehicle training, working with helicopters, equipment, and for some team members, swift water rescue training.
2024 Round Up…
The team's volunteers have had over 50 call outs this year, ranging from relatively quick, local, low-level, incidents to prolonged, high mountain and multi-agency ones.
And who knows, maybe next time we are zipped up to our eyeballs carrying a stretcher through a howling storm we might even recognise each other 😀
This weekend we joined an informal meet up for women in Mountain Rescue across the Lake District. Great to meet lots of impressive volunteers and to see the number of women in rescue growing.
Please see the link below for further information and details of how to order…
www.sientries.co.uk/event.php?ev...
Now, the Fell Running Association have coordinated production of limited edition 5” miniature busts that replicate the original bust. All profits from this project will go to Duddon and Furness MRT’s permanent base project...
Earlier this year the fell running world sadly lost a legend - Joss Naylor. After the funeral a bronze resin bust, created in 2008 by Cumbrian sculptor Paul Bainbridge, was auctioned in aid of Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team, raising £2100...
DFMRT’s volunteers are on call 24/7, 365 days of the year…
Here's a link to our website, so you can find out a bit more about our team of volunteers...
members.dfmrt.org.uk/index.php