The Simon Community held its 32nd Annual Fun Run in the beautiful surroundings of the Phoenix Park in Dublin on October 3rd 2015. The 5-mile route caters for both professional and amateur runners, with the charity inviting running clubs, school groups, corporate teams, family groups and friends to take part. With almost 1,200 energetic participants, […]
On the 23rd February a major search operation got under way to find three people missing after a building at Didcot Power Station collapsed and left one person dead. The former coal-fired power station was turned off in 2013, after 43 years in service, and demolition work had been taking place, in view of a […]
The RRT took part once again in the yearly ‘Bag It, Beat It’ campaign for the BHF (British Heart Foundation), collecting an outstanding 12,690 bags full of saleable clothes and goods. This will bring £100,000’s of revenue to BHF stores. ‘Bag It, Beat It’ is a nationwide campaign run by the British Heart Foundation allowing […]
Saturday afternoon 9th January at 14:30 a member of the Rapid Relief Team (RRT) was driving through Milton Combe in Devon. Milton Combe is an 18th Century village in a hollow with steep hills on three sides known as ‘Village in a hollow’ when they noticed anxious residents sand-bagging around their properties. After speaking to […]
Plymouth RRT joined the Plymouth Soup Run, serving 40 homeless persons with sandwiches, pasties, hot chocolate, coffee and soup. Food was served in 5 locations around Plymouth throughout the evening which was enjoyed by all, including 2 dogs who also turned up for their share of the sausage rolls on offer! RRT were also able […]
The final round of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) blasted in to Newtown on Friday 13th November to break the day up between its gruelling 6 rally stages in the famous dark damp Welsh forests. The streets were closed off so that the rally teams could stop off for lunch and have a tyre […]
The historic city of York, located on the River Ouse was particularly badly hit by the recent flooding which swept across the north of England during January. The river rose to almost 5.4m above its normal summer levels – very close to its previous record height. This overwhelmed the city’s flood defenses, and resulted in hundreds […]
As Storm Desmond tore through Britain, Kendal in Cumbria suffered terribly! On the 5th December 2015; BBC news reporting on the Cumbrian floods alerted RRT that their help was going to be called upon in Kendal and as the day drew to a close, around 80 people had been evacuated from their homes as the […]
There were no relaxed walks this Boxing Day as, with 21 severe flood warnings and 235 flood warnings, Preston RRT prepared for the worst. (Most of the region was still clearing up from the effects of Storm Desmond only days before!) After a call to help a local resident and his neighbours, more than 70 […]
Leicester RRT was involved in feeding emergency services & evacuated residents in Leicester during a massive factory fire in Ross Walk. At its peak, up to 70 firefighters from Leicestershire and Derbyshire battled to bring the fire under control in windy conditions, using 12 pumps, 2 aerial platforms and 6 water jets. About 140 residents […]
