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Create a fund to help sustain the official voluntary UK Search & Rescue teams

Submitted on Tuesday 26th January 2016

Published on Wednesday 27th January 2016

Current status: Closed

Closed: Wednesday 27th July 2016

Signatures: 1,170

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England ~ UK ~ Wales

Petition Action

Create a fund to help sustain the official voluntary UK Search & Rescue teams

Petition Details

The UK's official Mountain and Lowland Rescue teams offer vital professional assistance to the Emergency Services in times of personal, local or national crisis. They are the unseen, unsung local heroes behind many headlines, but they receive no funding and several are struggling to exist.

Additional Information

This petition asks the government to consider supporting the official UKSAR* volunteer-manned rescue teams with funds to cover their insurance, rent of premises, fuel or maintenance, which is the financial burden that teams find hardest to bear.

*UKSAR is an official group reporting to the government and in this case refers to member teams of the Association of Lowland Search & Rescue, and Mountain Rescue England and Wales, who work with the emergency services on a non-paid, non-funded basis.


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