About Us

Cornwall Search and Rescue Team (CSRT) is a registered charity that provides a search and

rescue service across inland Cornwall. We respond to around 40-60 incidents each year and

have 45 team members who are all volunteers and based across the county, available 24/7

for call outs.

Most of our call outs are searches in rural countryside and the moors, working closely with

the police and other local search and rescue teams to locate, stabilise and evacuate missing

people. In addition to the traditional image of missing walkers, many of these searches are

actually for confused elderly or young people, and persons who may cause harm to

themselves. We also have a search and rescue dog team that regularly gets called to assist

our neighbouring teams on Dartmoor and Exmoor.

By having all of this specialist training, equipment and vehicles we also get called to

respond to those who need help from the remoter parts of the county, including moorland

and mineshafts. In these circumstances, the ambulance service and fire and rescue service

can call us at any time to assist with these casualty evacuations.

Image of team member with a rucksack showing the team logo in focus, with other team members in the distance out of focus. Photo taken on moorland

We are one of the 56 voluntary and highly trained mountain rescue teams that operate

around the country, and regularly use of all these skills whether it be whilst rescuing

someone in atrocious weather on the moors, looking for an elderly neighbour, attending a

civil emergency or when providing assistance to other teams.

We don't get any central funding and all of our members are volunteers meaning that all of

the £15,000 required to keep the team running each year must come from voluntary

donations.

Control vehicle inside the team base at St Dennis