Northumberland National Park Mountain Rescue Team
Published 20 Apr 2022
Northumberland National Park Mountain Rescue
Thorne & Derrick support the Northumberland National Park Mountain Rescue Team – A Voluntary Emergency Service.
The team is a registered charity who relies entirely on the generosity of the public and other organisations for donations and funding. Our primary responsibility is to provide a search and rescue service to the area covered by Northumbria Police. This vast area encompasses all of Northumberland and Tyne and Wear and is approximately five thousand square kilometres (three thousand square miles).
As a secondary responsibility the team can be called upon to assist neighbouring mountain rescue teams, in the North East region, during protracted or difficult incidents and the team can call upon these neighbours to give assistance during similar circumstances.
The team are available and can be called out 24 hours per day and 365 days per year. We are called out by the police and operate under their authority when a search and rescue incident occurs, and whilst called a mountain rescue team, we are often used by the police in lowland and even urban searches when our specialist skills are required.
Support Us
Your Rescue Team Needs You!
You may be wondering how you can help the team.
All team members are volunteers and give their time to train and to respond to call outs entirely without charge. Indeed, there is a considerable financial commitment made by each team member, who is responsible for the provision of most of their own equipment and all of their own travelling expenses.
In order to continue to provide the on-going 24/7 emergency cover, the team does rely on the generosity of the public, companies and organisations whose donations are essential in order to cover our running costs and replace out of date and worn out equipment.
What can you do?
- Please follow the links to the How to Donate page and accept our heartfelt appreciation and thanks for your generosity.
- Make an annual donation and become a supporter + find out details about exclusive supporter events.
- You may decide you wish to join us in providing this vital emergency service, if so please go to the How to Join page for further details and again thanks for your interest.
- You can also tell people about us, let them know about the work we do and encourage them to visit our website.
- You can join our support team that provide invaluable support in raising awareness and funds for the team.
- Please, also visit our Facebook page and ‘Like’ us and again please encourage your friends to do the same.