ISSN 1756-8749 5 7 . 4 £ AUTUMN 58 2016 THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE FOR MOUNTAIN AND CAVE RESCUE IN ENGLAND AND WALES WELCOME TO ISSU E 58 Mountain Rescue is the membership magazine for mountain and cave rescue in England and Wales. fir st EDITORIAL Word Judy Whiteside MIKE FRANCE 07836 509 812 [email protected] Andy Simpson I hope summer has been kind to you and If this works — and there is no reason why it 0161 764 0999 you’ve managed to get some time with your won’t — we should have better [email protected] families. I see from social media that many communication with teams represented at Caroline Davenport teams have been very busy mountain both the operation and chairs group feeding 01270 878 324 [email protected] rescuing over this time. I am asked many into the management team and back. times, ‘so is winter your busy time’ but, with We agreed at the last AGM that the existing mountain.rescue.org.uk mountain biking, rock climbing and all the trustees would continue with the existing other outdoor activities people now undertake charity until the CIO comes into play, but Peter NEXT ISSUE for pleasure it looks like we don’t have any Dymond finishes his term in November and ISSU E 59 quiet times. will be standing down along with Paul Amos. Editorial Copy Deadline: Over the summer I have been working with So, on behalf of all of us, can I thank them for Friday 9 September 201 6 our trustees developing the new job their time and the hard work they put in. It’s fair Editorial copy must be supplied description for the new external trustees. This to say they haven’t had an easy ride but they as Word document. was sent to you for comment and by the time have helped steer us in the right direction. Images must be supplied as you read this it will have been issued. We are Also standing down at the November high resolution (300 dpi) JPG/EPS/TIFF/PDF. looking for a couple of people with the skills we meeting is Daryl Garfield, our vehicles officer. require. We have also taken on board the If you look at our vehicle standards now, the Advertising artwork must be supplied, ready prepared on comment from the regional chairs group in better uniformity of our vehicles and the better CD or via email as font that someone from that group should be a driving standards, lots of work has been done embedded high resolution PDF/EPS/TIFF (300 dpi). trustee of MREW. This person will be picked by by him and the vehicles team so again many the group to serve a two-year term. With the thanks for the hard work. We did make four exec officers, two external trustees and comment at our last meeting about section 19 someone from the chairs group this will give — that’s two vehicle officers have been and us the odd number and a good sized group of gone and still no section 19, good luck to our seven people to oversee the finance, next officer, let’s see if it comes in under their governance and strategy of the charity. tenure. The new constitution has also been written You will also find the new job description for over the summer, 80% plus of this paper is pre a president and vice president has been Cover written by the Charity Commission, the written and is on the website. We agreed a document is a template where we fill in our nominee should come from a team, ideally stoThre firyst of five joint training bits. By now I hope you’ve had sight of this, but with the backing of a region, and sent to the events with Bristow arranged by remember there is very little we can change. national secretary. For the moment we are LDSAMRA this autumn. The You will see when you read it that the big only looking for one vice president until we weather was great, the crew change for us is how the organisation is run. It understand how this role will work for us. were fantastic and 24 members from Cockermouth and makes it very clear the charity is run by the Peer reviews are going very well and that’s Keswick – and a dog – went trustees — that’s new for us. because you have engaged with it, thank you. through the training, including Myself, Mike, Penny and Dave met as the We have agreed to extend this first roll-out winching © Nick Lumb, Cockermouth MRT. executive to look at our meeting schedules period by an extra year (three years in total) and how they would work. Our views are: before reviewing the whole exercise. If you • The executive officers and trustees should wish to help with the peer reviews, please meet bi-monthly, six meetings a year. contact us. PLEASE NOTE • The exec officers only and specialist Finally, I hope you all know we have now elected officers (management group) meet bi- applied to register our logo as a registered Articles carried in Mountain Rescue do not necessarily monthly, six meetings a year. trademark. We won’t know until Christmas reflect the opinions of Mountain • The new operations group is going to meet because it’s in a consulting period at the Rescue England and Wales. on a Sunday (your request) three times a year, moment but if there are no objections it should We do not accept responsibility and the regional chairs already meet three be registered by then. ✪ for advertising content. times a year on a Saturday. AUTUMN 20 16 MOUNTAIN RESCUE MAGAZINE PAGE 3 national news in this issue MmR e etin gs EW BUSINESS AND Satu COMMITTEES rday 19 November 20 Lanca 16 shire Police HQ, Hutton PEER REVIEW MEETI W NG here do we go from Sa here? turday 7 January 201 7 Bowland Pe nnine base, Garstang Contact Tim Cain via tim@tim cainleadership.co.uk M REW BUSINESS AND Mountain and Cave Rescue Satu COMMITTEES rday 20 May 201 7 Awareness Day tips Lancashire Police H Q, Hutton 7 Get prepared for 30 October. To book in to MRE W business meetings, contact: Dave Close secretary@m ountain.rescue.org.uk Or spea k to the relevant office subcomm r for your Command and Control ittee — contact deta available ils for civil emergencies: on the MREW website. 10 John Barry of Berwicks on the need for plans Classic thong anyone? : New possibilities for 24 corporate wear revealed... The seven deadly sins of bias in incident management: 28 Lyle Brotherton on his work on Project Melampus Peer Review: Progress report 41 and a quiz from Tim Cain The adventure begins: Bob Sharp looks at the 44 social history behind the development of teams what’s in at a glance A PRINT QUALITY PDF OF THIS NATIONAL: 6-8 INCIDENT STATS: 37 YEAR’S POSTER IS AVAILABLE TEAMS: 10-25 WEATHER: 44-45 FROM EDITOR@ OBITUARY: 18 HISTORY: 44-48 MOUNTAIN.RESCUE.ORG.UK WHO’S WHO: 26-27 CAVE RESCUE: 49 AUTUMN 20 16 MOUNTAIN RESCUE MAGAZINE PAGE 5 m o c s . e m i t s e d m a national news e r u n D . c a c m u n e g r s o f J HOW YOU CAN © e n o i t HELP RAISE AWARENESS a r g t r s u l l I Mountain and Cave Rescue Awareness Day has moved to a new slot n on Sunday 30 October and there’s an opportunity here for teams to r spread the word about voluntary rescue services, using the ‘hook’ of the i clocks going back to GMT for the winter months. Sally Seed explains. o s f ‘The decision to change from May Bank So, if you’ve nothing planned so far, here remember the darker evenings and plan i Holiday to 30 October was really in response are a few ideas and, in the box to the ahead . You might even offer them one or to the ‘So what?’ question,’ says National right/left, a few suggested safety hints that two of your VARTA goodies to pass on in a Press Officer, Andy Simpson. ‘Plenty of might help on the messaging too. case visitors are unprepared. teams have events and open days on the r • If part of that box of goodies from VARTA is • Schedule a few posts on your team’s May Bank Holiday already so we wanted to RUN THE LONDON MARATHON FOR MREW sitting at base, take some photos, show Facebook and Twitter feeds for the half term shift the date to something that had a things in use online and think about giving week (24-28 October) and for Awareness As in previous years, MREW is fortunate to have five allocated places for runners in the London Marathon — these come as part significance and might generate a bit more or offering as prizes in and around 30 Day itself about safety on the darker nights. of our participation in the Princes’ Charity Forum and they provide a great opportunity to raise awareness and to raise money. media coverage out of the usual supporter October . Your local newspaper might be A small project team of Sally Barnett, Bill Whitehouse and Sally Seed is already working on promoting these places, looking to areas.’ • Share and connect to MREW and VARTA UK willing to give the team extra coverage and recruit five keen runners (and maybe a reserve), who have strong reasons to run for MREW and are willing to help us in pre-event One of the key factors in planning for 30 social media posts around Awareness Day to use the safety messages if you can offer publicity and activities as well as fundraising at the event.