The Moorjock December 2011
A happy new year to all our readers There is not a lot of news this month as a result of a quiet festive period so the format of this newsletter will be ‘the month in pictures’. Aqua Nova Water Bears were kind enough to nominate us and the Yorkshire Air Ambulance as their charities for funds raised in their Christmas Tree Taxi Service at the Dolby Forest Visitor Centre over the two weekends running up to Christmas. For a small donation they ferried the tree to your car with a Newfoundland dog and cart. The four days raised £425.95 for the team.
In addition to the fundraising the weekends raised much goodwill between the team, Aqua Nova and the Forestry Commission. We hope to see this as an annual event and are hoping to plan some social events with the group once the weather improves. Thanks to all those who helped. Presentation of cheques this month from fundraising by the kind people of Goathland through this summer. Deserving causes – Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team, the Fire Fighters charity and the Great North Air Ambulance. A genuine big thank you for the on-going support.
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3 December – Base and equipment cleaning day th 6 December - training evening th 9 December – Round table sleigh collection Ayton th 10 December - Aqua Nova water bears fundraising for us in Dalby th 11 December - training day th 11 December - Aqua Nova water bears fundraising for us in Dalby th 17 December - Aqua Nova water bears fundraising for us in Dalby th 18 December - Aqua Nova water bears fundraising for us in Dalby th 18 December – Search callout Jugger Howe, LWW party in difficulty, seen by Rescue 128 on route to RV and evacuated to the RV and Scarborough Hospital th 20 December – training evening nd 22 December – Search call out Scalby Mills for vulnerable male. Area searched with no find th 24 December – Fundraising at Go Outdoors York
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1 January – Support to the Scarborough Lions New Year dip th 4 January – Training evening th 9 January – Ops group meeting th 10 January – Training sub committee th 11 January – Equipment sub committee th 14 January – Night exercise th 17 January – Talk and liaison meeting with Scarborough NYFRS th 18 January – Training evening th 19 January – Marketing and fundraising sub committee th 25 January – Committee meeting th 27 January – Band and buffet at the Grapes (details to follow)
Team web site
Sunrise over Scarborough castle headland, following the early morning search around Scalby Mills on the 22nd of December. Photo by John Hart subsequently circulated on line by Yorkshire Life.
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Team fundraising walks 2012 Monthly update
The dates for our first two walks of 2012 have been published as follows: th
Well done to Paul, Richard and Steve on successfully completing their call-out assessment this month. Although looking at the picture you would not know it, there again it was taken in driving rain and we had not told them at that point.
Falcon flyer – Saturday 17 March th
Ravenscar coastal half marathon – Sunday 29 April Please put all these dates in your diaries now. Remember we need 13 staff to man the base, control, vehicles and sweep the route before we cover any check points. We have approached a number of companies for sponsorship but perhaps team members could suggest other opportunities? The Raven Hall hotel is sponsoring part of the costs of the Falcon Flyer. Please advertise the events to friends, colleagues, clubs and organisations. Remember entry fees are refunded if individuals raise more than £25 sponsorship for the team. Entry forms for the Falcon Flyer and Ravenscar half marathon are available on the web site. In December we had 46 entry forms downloaded for the FF and 28 for the ½ marathon, Neal also handed lots out at a walk he organises. Let’s hope they all turn into entries
Go Outdoors York organised a charity raffle for us on Christmas Eve and allowed us to collect in the shop reception. The day raised £428.33 on the day and they are keen to help with other events through the year. As always thanks to all those who helped at both short notice and during a hectic holiday period. Our latest supporter is shown on the left of the page and should still be stood there patiently collecting.
-4Notices The Mountain Equipment Fitzroy Belay Jackets provided by MRE&W have arrived. If eligible, and If you have not yet received yours then Drew will be issuing them over the next few training events. The jacket is being modelled by Stuart to the right of this article (wide angle lens courtesy of John Hart). The drugs and dressing bags now have pulse oximeters in them. The guys on the recent casualty care course have already been trained. The rest of the casualty carers will be trained at the next convenient time. We have a new protocol for securing the base; please ensure you are familiar with it if you are locking the building. The new team website http://www.srmrt.org.uk has been live since early December and is getting an average of 103 visits per day. We have had a number of contacts via the site with requests to join the team, praise from the party we searched for around Jugger, an ask for us to present to a scouting event in York in March and an ex RAF MR team member after swapping memorabilia (in Roger’s capable hands).
Caption competition What is Gary up to ?
We are still looking to co-opt an equipment officer and medical adviser please see the email from Roger dated the th 15 of December. MJ51 has recently had the sills and wheel arches re sprayed and is looking smart again. Please help us to keep it that way. Thanks to Pete for organising. The callout at Jugger Howe created some fabulous publicity. I suspect we stole some of Woodhead’s thunder who had an article scheduled to go out the following day. The BBC estimate the Look North piece was seen by 870,000 viewers in the early evening news and 338,000 in the late news. We were front page in the SEN and made a number of other regional papers.
The best comments (legal, decent and honest) will be in next month’s newsletter.
Please do not forget to submit your, constructive, training feedback forms to Russ and the TSC. Simply drop them in the ‘coffin’ located in the training room at the base.
Ian Hugill January 2011