Kinder Mountain Rescue Team provides search and mountain rescue services in the English Peak District, Derbyshire.

We are based in Hayfield in the High Peak and our area includes Kinder Scout and west towards Stockport and Manchester. We provide a 365 days a year, 24/7 search and mountain rescue service to walkers and climbers in the Dark Peak, as well as assisting the police with lowland search and rescue of vulnerable persons.

How to donate to KMRT

You can help the team by donating online through justgiving by going to KMRT's Justgiving page or send a cheque payable to 'Kinder Mountain Rescue Team' to: Peter Chambers, KMRT Treasurer,13 Hayfield Road, Chapel-en-le Frith, High Peak, SK23 0JF. For more infomation, visit our fundraising page. Or find out more about becoming a supporter

and a big thank you goes to…

...alll the people, businesses and groups who have provided materials, goods, tools and support to help with the new hut.

Steve and Jill at the George in Hayfield
Marstons Brewery for the premises
Arco have provided safety equipment
Howdens Joinery, Stockport for the kitchen
Dilworth & Morris, New Mills have provided goggles and masks
Dulux for providing paint for the new base
Ryans DIY Center in New Mills for key cutting services

Shop KMRT

If you make purchases from retailers such as Play or Amazon please consider using Buy at KMRT when shopping online as all purchases generate a donation for Kinder Mountain Rescue Team.
Purchase CDs, DVDs, books, insurance and much more. Also available are flights, short breaks, presents, toys and gifts.
KMRT receives a donation every time you make a purchase here .

Cracken Edge Fell Race 2010 – photographs

Over 200 runners started this year’s race on a beautiful summer’s evening. For race results please visit Hayfield Fell Races. Many thanks to everyone who took part or marshalled and supported – this race raises much needed funds for the team. 


August 4th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Fell Races, Fundraising | Comments are closed

London, Melbourne… Stockport: Blackheart play benefit gig for KMRT 3 Sept 2010

Blackheart live on stageUrban Folk band Blackheart are taking a break from their 2010 tour to play a fundraiser for KMRT on 3 September 2010. Blackheart are Chrissy Mostyn and Rick Pilkington Their songwriting blends folk, country and even rock influences to create a unique style of beautifully crafted, instantly memorable songs that has been christened by the media ‘urban folk’.

Having built a reputation on outstanding live concerts and two albums , they are widely regarded as the fastest rising stars of the new folk generation. To find out more about Blackheart, visit their website www.blackheartmusic.co.uk or better yet come and see them on 3 September 2010 at the Great Moor Club in Stockport.

Tickets are £6 each and available from Great Moor Club, tel 01614832140 or Ken Blakeman. Tel  01614830215.

June 2nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Fundraising, MRT news | Comments are closed

The Race to Bern: KMRT probationer and friends hitch to Switzerland to raise money for the team

Three very smiley teamsLast month Scott Szymczak, James Szymczak, Daniel Young, Jonathan Hakes, Sarah Ward, Matthew Williams and Hannah Little all friends from Sheffield raced all the way to Switzerland without paying for any transport, all in the name of charity.

With their impressive hitch-hiking skills, the three teams managed to raise over £400 for the Kinder Mountain Rescue team on completion of their continental task.

The group of students from South Yorkshire decided to have a top-gear style race from the Peace Gardens in Sheffield to the famous Zytglogge clock in the Swiss capital city. read more…

April 28th, 2010 | Category: Fundraising, MRT news, event | Comments are closed

Running for rescue: Sponsor KMRT’s Alison in the 2010 Wilmslow Half Marathon

Alison in glorious sunshine after Great North Run

Alison in glorious sunshine after Great North Run

Alison in glorious snowstorm on a callout

Alison in glorious snowstorm on a callout

As if being part of a mountain rescue team in possibly our busiest year ever wasn’t enough, KMRT’s Alison is taking part in the 2010 Asics Wilmslow Half Marathon on 28 March 2010 to raise money for the team.  She’ll be running over 13 miles (13.1 to be exact). You can sponsor Alison via www.justgiving.com/runningforrescue or to find out more about Alison’s story, click the read more link or if you are inspired by Alison’s example to get out there and fundraise yourself, check out our guide to setting up sponsorship.

read more…

March 1st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Fundraising, MRT news, Running for rescue, event | Comments are closed

One very cold week in January…

urban rescue

urban rescue

Mobile 2 on manoeuvres

Mobile 2 on manoeuvres

Since the world awoke to a snow covered world on Tuesday 5 January, Kinder Mountain Rescue Team has been working round the clock to man our base in Hayfield and to crew our two landrovers responding to incidents throughout Greater Manchester and Derbyshire. Over 40 team members have been involved to ensure that we reach those people most in need despite the snow and ice.

Our unpaid volunteers have clocked up over a thousand man hours since the heavy snowfall begun. We’ve been in blizzards on the high peak of Kinder Scout and the treacherous, frozen parks of Greater Manchester. We’ve driven our landrovers through ice and snow to urban areas that the ambulance service could not reach, typically to the surprise of local residents who did not expect a mountain rescue team to be operating in their cul-de-sacs and housing estates. We’ve even attended a major road traffic accident on the M60.

From sledging accidents to heart attack victims, we’ve been wherever we’ve been needed; Disley, Openshaw, Bolton, Chesterfield, Stockport, Hayfield, Stalybridge, twenty-four hours a day, whatever the weather.

We’ll help you, will you help us?

This operation would not have been possible if we hadn’t decided to improve the team’s headquarters in Hayfield in 2009. The new facilities meant that our landrovers can be housed inside, stocked with the right equipment for immediate deployment. However this crucial improvement work has left the team’s finances at an all-time low and we urgently need donations to enable the team to continue operations. The team is entirely funded by donations from the public as are all mountain rescue teams.

January 11th, 2010 | Category: Fundraising, MRT news, New HQ Appeal | Comments are closed

Vote for Kinder Mountain Rescue Team in the Goodyear Team of the Year Awards

2682612292_5c073fb8f7_bKinder Mountain Rescue Team is one of seven teams in the running to be Goodyear’s Team of the Year.  As part of the ongoing partnership with Mountain Rescue England & Wales, Goodyear is running the Team of the Year Award to reward one team for their around the clock efforts, offering £2,000 to be spent on safety equipment. To find out more or vote for the team, click here.

About the team: Kinder Mountain Rescue Team (KMRT) is based in Hayfield, in the Peak District. Over twenty million people visit the Peak District annually and many of those come to see sights such as the Kinder Downfall and wander around the Kinder Edges. They might also see more than fifty men and women from Kinder Mountain Rescue Team responding to a callout or training. We rescue hikers, climbers, fellrunners, mountain bikers and the occasional sheep from the wild and high places of the Western Peak district as well as urban searches to assist police in looking for missing people.

What the donation would go towards: KMRT needs to be able to respond rapidly to callouts where life is at risk. In order to continue to do this crucial work, our base needs to be fit for purpose. We started the urgently needed renovation and extension of our existing hut this year but we need financial support and donations to purchase new equipment for the new base.

Vote here for Kinder Mountain Rescue Team

November 22nd, 2009 | Category: Fundraising, New HQ Appeal | Comments are closed

Forthcoming event: New Mills Community Bonfire

KMRT will be at the New Mills Community Bonfire on Sat 7 November. This will be held at High Lea Park, New Mills from 7pm.

October 23rd, 2009 | Category: Fundraising, MRT news, New HQ Appeal | Comments are closed

KMRT new hut appeal

Kinder Mountain Rescue Team provides a 24/7 365day a year 999 rescue service, wholly staffed by volunteers who voted last week to carry out the urgently needed renovation and extension of our existing hut at an extraordinary team meeting.

This critical work is needed to enable the team to respond rapidly to potentially life saving callouts.

Currently the team’s two vehicles are kept outside and this means a delay in responding to call outs in winter whilst the vehicles are cleared of snow and/or ice, or warmed up. There are also further delays caused by having to load equipment into each vehicle before setting off which would be unnecessary if the vehicles could be kept indoors.

How can you help?

We still need donations – not necessarily financial – building supplies are also needed so contact us if you can help with materials.  Whilst the team has the funds to pay for the work if donations are not forthcoming, it will use up most of the teams reserves.

September 21st, 2009 | Category: Fundraising, New HQ Appeal | Comments are closed

High Peak Mayors Charity 18th April 2009

Vinny, Dave I, Lofty and Sally (Mrs Lofty) attended New Mills Golf Club along with other local charities. We were presented with a cheque for £195 by  the Mayor of the High Peak as a beneficiary of his charity fund. Kinder MRT are very grateful to the Mayor for the donation in recognition of the work the team undertakes. The donation will be put to good use.

May 6th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Fundraising, event | Leave a comment

Chapel May Day Fun

May Day Fun on the Market Place

May Day Fun on the Market Place

Come and Meet Kinder Mountain Rescue Team at the family-friendly traditional  Chapel en le Frith May Day celebration on the afternoon of the Bank Holiday, 4th May 1-4 pm. This will include Country Dancing, May Pole Dancing, Circus entertainment, stalls etc,Kiddies Rides. Chapel Business Association, Schools, Kinder Mountain Rescue Team ,local community groups are all involved. The core aim of the project is to encourage Chapel residents back into the town centre, to support local shops and to promote the town to visitors.

Alternative free parking can be found in the Borough Council car parks on Thornbrook Road and at Miry Meadow

May 1st, 2009 | Category: Fundraising, MRT news | Leave a comment
 
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