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Team nominated for Saints Award

Friday, 20 January 2012 18:44 |

Cornwall Search and Rescue Team is proud to have been shortlisted to the final three community groups for the Saints Award.

<B><I>Saint Awards Presentation Night</I></B>

The Saints Awards recognises people and groups living and working within the PL22 to PL26 postcode who make St Austell and its surrounding areas special. The team, which is based in St Dennis has been nominated in the Community Groups category - which celebrates the contribution to the local community by an organisation.

CSRT which is a registered charity, responds to call outs from the police, fire and ambulance services across the county for missing and injured people, last year being called to 39 incidents. Since being founded in 2003, the team has been called to around 380 incidents, ranging from missing children to major weather events.

To vote for the team - follow the link and scroll to the bottom of the make to make your entry.

Thank you!

Link to This is Cornwall website

Charity walk for team search dogs

Monday, 21 November 2011 17:18 |

A big thank you to Lucilla and Charlie Cox who smashed their £350 fundraising target during their 200 mile Coast to Coast walk from St Bees Head on the west coast of Cumbria, to Robin Hood's Bay on the east coast in Yorkshire. The total amount raised was an amazing £717.21, and this has been donated to support the work of our search and rescue dog team and help to develop new dog handlers in the future.

These air scenting dogs take about two years to fully train, but once operational can cover the ground of 20 human searchers, saving dozens of lives throughout the UK each year.

The team is extremely grateful for this fantastic donation and hopes they didn’t get too many blisters!

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Vehicle upgrades

Monday, 21 November 2011 16:44 |

The team recently unveiled an addition to the fleet, thanks to numerous donations and hard work over the past couple of years by Pete’s Dragons and local businesses.

2011 Induction

Saturday, 08 October 2011 16:46 |

Blue skies and sunshine greeted prospective new team members on Sunday 2nd October 2011 at Minions on Bodmin Moor for the teams latest recruitment campaign. The applicants were given medical, navigation and evacuation scenarios for them to get a chance to see what life on the team is like, and for them to display any skills they already have.

Those who were successful will be starting their training in November.

Recruitment latest...

Sunday, 04 September 2011 12:38 |

It's still not too late to submit your application for joining the team. Please feel free to get in touch for an informal chat or to ask for an application pack.

Tim, Cat, Rich and Jim have all been on various local radio stations to help promote the recruitment campaign, which included a live "rescue" of Radio Cornwall presenter Debbie McCrory from a ledge on Roche Rock! More will be coming out in the local papers over the next week, but our thanks go out to all the team members and local press who have been working hard to promote the work of the team and help boost our numbers.

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