Buxton Mountain Rescue Team will be on Spring Gardens, Buxton as part of town’s second Spring Fair which will take place on Bank Holiday Monday 5th May from 10am until 5pm.  This year the fair will extend right through Buxton’s  ’Main Street’ – Spring Gardens, the Crescent, the Slopes, the Market Place and the High Street.

Over 150 stalls and activities have booked in through Buxton Town Team with another 70 plus in the Pavilion Gardens.  Last year proved to be a great day out for all the family.

If you have …

Team supporter, Gillian Halliday’s series of word quizzes continue to reap handsome rewards for the rescue team.

Quiz 7, Gillian’s latest quiz, is available by post or email.  This time you are looking for British place names which include body parts and there is a first prize of £10. to be won.  Closing date end of June 2014.

Send a stamped addressed return envelope to Gillian Halliday at BMRT Quiz, “Lorien”, Main Road, Stickney, Boston, Lincolnshire, PE22 8AG.  Don’t forget to include a £1 cheque payable to Buxton Mountain Rescue Team. Alternatively, you can use PAYPAL (please send a …

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team will be at Pooles Cavern, Green Lane, Buxton this coming Easter Saturday between 10.00 am and 4.00 pm.

The team will have vehicles and equipment on display in the car-park and will be able to answer questions on what makes a rescue team tick.  Weather permitting, it is hoped that the public can get hands on experience of dealing with a casualty in Grinlow Woods and carrying a rescue stretcher.

This is an ideal opportunity for anyone considering joining the team as an operational member or in a support role to find out everything they want to know.

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Thanks to all who supported Buxton team members in the 2014 Four Inns Walk. 

All three teams completed the forty mile course although two members retired on route.   The Buxton “Fastens” finished in fifteen hours despite being diverted to a rescue incident on Kinder Scout.

The weather was not kind from the start with low cloud and drizzle for most of the way hampering navigation.  As darkness fell the weather worsened with heavy rain.

The “Oldens” finished the route in twenty hours and a minute with just one of their original party of four retiring at …

2014 sees Buxton Mountain Rescue Team and the regional organisation, The Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation, celebrating 50 years of life saving work throughout the Peak District.

Many of those involved in modern day rescue will be remembering the events 50 years ago as this year’s Four Inns endurance walk sets off at weekend.  Saturday 5th April will see about 300 walkers attempting The Four Inns, a tough competitive walk in the Peak District over some of the roughest moorland in Britain. The walk takes its name from the four inns along its route – The Isle Of Skye (site of), Snake Pass Inn, Nags …

Dove Holes Shrove Tuesday Pancake Party!   An unusual way to raise funds but never the less a most successful one.  “Churches Together” is a an amalgamation of St Pauls Church, Dove Holes and Dove Holes Methodist Church and each Shrove Tuesday they work together to hold a Pancake Party.  Money raised at the event is given to a local charity and this year they chose to support Buxton Mountain Rescue Team’s £50,000 for Fifty Years Service Appeal. 

£100 was raised and Mary Washbrook from St Pauls Church and Ken Gibson of Dove …

In August 2012 two young rock climbers Jimmy Hyland and Jamie Fisher both from Buxton were climbing a route called The Prow on the Roaches near Leek when they had an accident. Both fell to the bottom of the climb and Jimmy sustained facial and wrist injuries whilst Jamie broke his ankle.

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team was called to the incident and after treatment the boys were evacuated by stretcher, Jimmy to the Midlands Air Ambulance and Jamie to a land ambulance.  After treatment in hospital both have made a full recovery and …

March was a notable month for Buxton Mountain Rescue Team as it held its Fiftieth Annual General Meeting at the Robin Hood public house in Buxton.

Fifty years on, the modern team would be hardly recognisable by those founding fathers in 1964.  In the early days the team ran on a shoe string budget on less than £100 per year, begging, borrowing or otherwise acquiring most of its basic equipment.  Now the team needs to raise £30,000 to maintain its operational service with special fundraising appeals when major items need replacing.  The standards of training and equipment and its operational skills …

The mountain rescue teams of the Peak District have been honoured with a Commendation from Derbyshire Constabulary‘s Chief Constable, Mick Creedon.

Representatives of the seven teams that make up the Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation (PDMRO) were invited as the guests of Mr. Creedon to the Celebrating Achievement Awards Ceremony, held at Butterley Hall police headquarters in Ripley. An unannounced award was presented to the teams at the end of the ceremony in recognition of their services to the community over 50 years of providing search and rescue services to the Peak District and beyond.…