You won’t find too many adverts on this web page as we hesitate to recommend any commercial products or use the name of mountain rescue to promote any businesses.   However, there is always an exception and when someone creates a product to raise money for the team we give it our whole-hearted endorsement.
Buxton Brewery Company, a micro brewery just over the road from our auxiliary base at Buxton Fire Station, has created a new brew especially  to support the rescue team.   Available in cask and bottles from The Old …

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team is a registered charity and has no political leanings whatsoever.  However, when it comes to paying tax on the money that people donate generously to the team, then we do have a view.

All mountain rescue teams provide a service to the community free of charge.  Of course, the service isn’t really free.  It costs Buxton team around £35,000 per year to remain operational and most other teams will have similar expenses.   92% of that money has to be raised from the public often by our operational members standing on street corners with collection tins.

So to …

August has proved to be a busy period with ten call-outs so far and still a week to go to complete the month.   The busy time is perhaps to be expected being the middle of the holiday season and there appears to be no other particular pattern to the incidents.   A general mixture of calls with some serious and some not so serious but all requiring members to give up their time to enable them to respond.  Three full days of searching in the month has pushed up the operational hours total to 665 so far.

Team members gladly …

Sadly, one or two paragliders and hang gliders appear in team call-out statistics nearly every year.  On occasions, the pilot’s injuries can be serious but the incident site can also pose additional threats to the rescuers.   On a Thursday training night in August twenty members of Buxton MRT travelled to Darley Moor Airfield near Ashbourne to learn what not to do when called to a paraglider incident.

Buxton team is fortunate to have its own member, Shelly Smith, who is a qualified …

Malc Needham joined Buxton MRT in 1977 when the team was still in its formative stages of development and after 36 years Malc has decided to enjoy his retirement in the French countryside.   Malc and his partner, Christine, have been renovating a farmhouse deep in rural France for several years.  Now the project is complete and as retirement frees them from ties to the UK they have decided to emigrate in just a few days.

Malc has served the team with a dedication equalled by very few and has served as …

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team and Buxton (St John) First Responders were chosen as “2012 Charities of the Year” by High Peak Golf Club Captains, Cheryl Scowen and Paul Waring.

Throughout their year as club captains they encouraged club members, family and friends to raise money for their chosen charities and, at a small reception at High Peak Golf Club last week, cheques of £1,430 were presented to both the First Responders and to Buxton MRT.

We wish to express our sincere gratitude to Cheryl and Paul for choosing Buxton MRT to be one …

Following on from the news article of 26th June;  

Litton Primary School had organised a sponsored walk in aid of the rescue team and on Tuesday 16th July Team Chairman, Roger Bennett, returned to the school to hear how the event had gone. The walk involved the children and parents and had been planned with varying lengths to suit all the mixed ages of the 46 pupils at the school.  The older children walked a total length of over six miles in Cressbrook Dale.

With all the children and staff present the total sum of money raised was revealed on cards, displayed …

So You Thought You Knew the British Isles?

Well our two prize winners certainly do.  Nearly 200 people entered the competition which continues to grow in popularity with every quiz and has so far raised nearly £1,000 for the team.  Congratulations go to Wendy King of Anton’s Gowt, Lincolnshire and to Mrs J Joyce of Wellingborough, Northants who took first and second prizes in the latest word quiz competition organised by team supporter, Gill Halliday.

Missed out?  Don’t worry.  

Another similar word competition will be available from mid July whereby you will need …

So You Thought You Knew the British Isles?
Well our two prize winners certainly do.  Nearly 200 people entered the competition which continues to grow in popularity with every quiz and has so far raised nearly £1,000 for the team.  Congratulations go to Wendy King of Anton’s Gowt, Lincolnshire and to Mrs J Joyce of Wellingborough, Northants who took first and second prizes in the latest word quiz competition organised by team supporter, Gill Halliday.
Missed out?  Don’t worry.  
Another similar word competition will be available from mid July whereby you will need …

The 46 pupils of Litton Primary School have been spending part of this summer on a project all about mountains and were keen to demonstrate their knowledge when four team members visited the school last week.

In a short question and answer session at the start of the visit, team members were amazed at the depth of knowledge the children had acquired.  It left Team Chairman, Roger Bennett, wishing he had never asked some of the questions when it became apparent that the children knew more about mountains than he did.   …