RRT helps out Somerset-based St Margaret’s Hospice

Somerset-based St Margaret’s Hospice provides compassionate, high quality and responsive care to patients, families and carers who are facing the challenge of a life-limiting illness.  The landscaped gardens of Quantock House provides patients and carers an opportunity to recuperate in peaceful surroundings. Taunton’s Rapid Relief Team were approached by St Margaret’s Hospice to help in […]

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Hannahs Charity Event

As one of the UK’s oldest charities, Hannah’s has been enriching the lives of children and young people for more than 200 years. They are dedicated to empowering children, young people and adults with profound physical and learning disabilities, providing them with life-changing opportunities and advocating their needs, with the aim of making disability incidental. […]

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Cardiff Steelworks Explosion

For the local businesses on East Moors Road in Cardiff, Wednesday 18th November was just like any other day.  Until 10:30, when a major explosion occurred at a nearby steelworks, rocking nearby buildings, startling people and signalling trouble. Emergency services rushed to the scene, and although the resulting fire was quickly contained and most people […]

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Recruitment Drive at Newtown Fire Station

Newtown fire station in Mid-Wales are in need of more volunteer fire-crew, so on Saturday 24th October they opened their doors, asked for a hand from RRT and invited the public to a fun day at the local fire station. Nothing was done in half measures, it had to be a day to remember as […]

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Help For Homeless Box Appeal

The Warrenpoint RRT Team were delighted to be involved in a RRT UK wide “Help For Homeless Box Appeal” which coincided with World Homeless Day 10th October 2015 With a very tight timescale a small team of core volunteers got in contact with friends and family to request donations of specified food stuff that could […]

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Homeless Shoebox Appeal for the Southwest

The Torbay RRT was asked if they would help the Torquay Chamber of Commerce who were running the Homeless Shoebox appeal for the South West of the UK. The Chamber of Commerce had nominated 2 drop off points in Torquay but had no means of collecting the boxes, and delivering them to the homeless. RRT […]

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RRT support NIFRS at Waste Recycling Plant Blaze.

On the 11th of November 2015, a small fire broke out in a premises owned by a waste recycling company.  The fire quickly grew in size and within a couple of hours the fire had engulfed a whole barn that contained over 5000 tons of waste materials.  Hundreds of fire fighters and specialist equipment arrived […]

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RRT Feeds Borough Council for Live Exercise Training

Bournemouth Borough Council has to exercise and train for Survivor Rest Centre facilities on a regular basis to fulfil the UK Civil Contingencies Act 2004 as a key agency requirement, ‘to plan, train, exercise, review and prepare for consequences of major emergencies and their impact on their communities’. This provision should be made by Local […]

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