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Kings School Worcester CCF fundraiser for West Mercia Search & Rescue

Stuart Ellen is raising money for West Mercia Search & Rescue

KSW CCF Three Peaks Triathlon

We save the lives of vulnerable people and help bereaved families start the process of closure by finding their missing loved ones. A completely volunteer organisation operating across West Mercia with trained team members, vehicles, and boats we responded from bases in Kidderminster and Bridgnorth to 50 searches last year, with 5,000 operational, 5,000 training and 4,000 fundraising hours. 100% of all donations go towards running the rescue team. With a nationally qualified team of 64 land searchers with quad bikes and drones, we also operate on rivers and lakes and have a DEFRA rated Flood Response Team and specialist Sonar Team with a national reputation. Our Incident Command Unit is the planning hub for complex searches and on-line planning systems share information with team and police in real time. We provide education to the community in water safety awareness, with our “Home and Dry” campaign. https://westmerciasar.org.uk/homeanddry/ With the voluntary sector equivalent of an MBE: The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service we have also been recognised with a High Sheriff’s Award and are holders of the inaugural Shropshire Community Foundation Award as “Outstanding Community Organisation”. Our involvement of military personnel in the team has recently been awarded an Armed Forces Gold Covenant. 31 members earned with the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal for “Service to UK Search and Rescue”, and a similar number, will receive the King’s Coronation Medal.

Story

West Mercia Search & Rescue save people in danger in Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Shropshire.

Always on-call. Always professional. Always volunteers.

They drop everything to respond – the call could come at any time to find someone and save their life.

They care deeply about people in danger and train hard to help them.

They go in to danger and get people out safely.

They are the hand reaching to people in need. We are the first face they see when all else is lost.

They are called out by the Police and Fire Services when help is needed in finding and saving people in Shropshire, Herefordshire or Worcestershire.

They provide highly-trained, well-equipped specialists for:

Search for missing vulnerable adults and children

Rescue from floods

Rescue from rivers and other waterways

Provision of care to anyone whose life is in danger

They are all unpaid civilians, but we are audited by multiple agencies to ensure that our training, equipment and response is as reliable as the emergency services themselves.

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Donation summary

Total
£825.00
+ £206.25 Gift Aid
Online
£825.00
Offline
£0.00

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