The team needs to raise between £10,000 and £15,000 annually just for this. The running costs are to maintain all  the team’s equipment and that is without purchasing any additional specialised equipment that is required. Team members pay for their own equipment and training exercises and their own personal costs to travel to incidents. The Welsh Assembly Government, grant £6,600 annually, shared between all the Mountain Rescue Teams in Wales (some 17 teams) and the Police cover team members for personal life insurance, whilst on training and exercise. Also in some instances they will give a fuel grant for the team’s vehicles,  based on fuel mileage for incidents only, not for training, or for team members personal vehicles.

The team benefit regularly from Tesco Stores, kindly allowing the team to  hold collection days at its local stores, whereby team members present collection boxes for public donations. This the team believe not only to be a valuable exercise in obtaining much needed public donations, but also to meet the public to further explain its work and to show that  the team is an integral part of the community. In addition the team is presently raising capital funds for a major redesign of its HQ and is presently investigating different alternatives for the existing building,  or for a new site. This the team believes will be of benefit, as the vehicles would then  located under secure cover and provide a purpose built training room and equipment store etc. For more information contact the fundraising team.

Unfortunately fundraising relies on team members giving up more time from team training and incidents and if you are able to assist in any way with fundraising then please contact the team direct through contacting the team secretary on this website.If you would like to make a donation,  then you can do so by making a secure donation HERE  or simply texting: WBMR40 and your amount to 70070 (e.g. ‘WBMR40 £5’)