The video promotes the work of volunteer mountain rescuers in England and Wales
Mountain rescuers have released a promotional video detailing the work carried out by its volunteers.
The 4½-minute film features a fictional incident with a rescue by members of a mountain rescue team from south Wales.
The movie makes the point that only 8 per cent of the £2.5m needed by mountain rescuers in England and Wales comes from official sources such as the Government.
Public donations make up 92 per cent of the organisation’s income.
Every year, the unpaid volunteers of the teams in England and Wales deal with 2,500 emergency calls for their help and the teams, who are trained to professional standards, use more than 100 Land Rover ambulances to reach casualties on the mountains and in the countryside south of the border.
The film features a man injuring his leg and the subsequent rope rescue as the Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team stretchers him up a crag.
Statistics from the umbrella organisation for mountain and cave rescue in England and Wales show that the combined total of hours devoted to the cause each year by team members is a staggering 780,000.
More details of the volunteers’ work are on the Mountain Rescue England and Wales website. http://www.mountain.rescue.org.uk/
Deon Warwick
17 December 2012It's probably worth pointing out too that some teams are funded 100% by donations only and don't get govt funding.
Gerald Davison
18 December 2012@Deon - I'd be interested to know which teams you mean?
Since 2011 the England and Wales teams have been given £124,000 to be spread between them. With 48 teams eligible this means around £2,500 a team. A small, but not insignificant sum.
The money is administered on behalf of the teams by Mountain Rescue England and Wales and is used for equipment purchases.
It is a very welcome sum, which has helped to offset the increased costs in VAT and fuel that teams have seen.
There are different arrangements in Scotland were the teams are splitting around £76,000 between them, plus some other Scottish Government grants.
However, the VAST majority of funding for teams comes from charitable donations which they could not exist without.
Teams are ALL volunteers with no paid employees involved in running teams or managing them. This is a significant difference from lots of other charities that employ staff. I think this is something MR should promote understanding of more forcefully as lots of people still seem to think that MR team members are paid. Very few teams even pay fuel expenses so it actually costs people to volunteer!
Deon Warwick
19 December 2012Some teams rejected government proposals for funding amidst worries about how the public would view a 'government funded' tag. This, it is feared, might affect public donations, if they think teams are already being paid by the government.
Having said that, I think your last paragraph is what should be promoted most without a doubt.
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