100% Voluntary.
100% Committed.
Serviced by dedicated unpaid volunteers, we rely on your support all year round.
The history of organised Mountain Rescue teams began on this island in 1962 when the Mourne Mountain Rescue Team was founded. The Kerry Mountain Rescue Team and the An Óige Mountain Rescue Team were later founded in 1966.
The Mourne Mountain Rescue Team is made up entirely of volunteers who live close to the Mournes. Based at the foot of Slieve Donard in the coastal town of Newcastle, all operations and callouts are currently conducted from the PSNI Station.
Lidl Northern Ireland has been given the green light to proceed with plans to develop a new state-of-the-art store in Newcastle, County Down. The new store, which will be located at Shan Slieve Drive and Bryansford Road, at the foot of the Mourne Mountains, will also provide The Team the space it needs to develop a new facility, future-proofing the organisation and its ability to continue providing a lifesaving service.
The Team are actively fundraising and seeking your help to ensure we have the funds in place to make this exciting project a reality. We need YOUR help to get us the funds we need! To find out how you can donate please visit our donation page. Every Lidl helps…
2021 in numbers
Man Hours
Up 57% from 2020
Callouts
Up 52% from 2020
Team Members
No Change
People Assisted
Down 26% from 2020
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Mountain Rescue in the UK is a voluntary service. To maintain this valuable community operation, we rely solely on the support and generosity of you – the public.
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Hopefully our last update post!
It’s been a long journey but we’re almost at the end… 14 years to be exact! So a really good time to acknowledge those that have shared the journey and ensured we are where we are.
To all our members past and present, their families, friends, supporters and our entire community… thank you each and every one of you - we hope to see as many of you on the 27th as possible!
To Lidl who have so generously provided an excellent site, alongside facilitating initial design, obtaining planning and installing our foundations - we hope we’ll be good neighbours?
To the Community Ownership Fund who took our fundraising across the line, ensuring the establishment of a very unique community asset - with absolutely no debt.
To those that have joined us at the very, but critical, end of our journey… the build… Alan Bennett, Architect, Nigel Proctor, Mechanical & Electrical Engineer, Joe Green, Quantity Surveyor, Roy Armstrong, Structural Engineer & Contractor Ganson UK, their team Gerard McClelland, Barry Agnew, Conor Beeks, Vincent Sloan, their sub-contractors and suppliers.
And finally, to our new neighbours on the Tullybrannigan Road and Shanslieve Drive, thank you for your understanding and patience - we very much look forward to welcoming you in for a cuppa on the 27th.
So who’s coming along on the 27th?
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