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This is where we share what we have been doing.
Callout reports (where we are able to), training milestones, community events, fundraising updates and the occasional glimpse behind the scenes of what it takes to keep a volunteer search and rescue team operational.
We cannot always share the detail of our searches. Many of the people we look for are vulnerable, and their families deserve privacy. When the police give us permission to talk about an incident, we will. When they do not, we respect that completely, even when it means our biggest and most challenging callouts go completely unrecognised.
If you want to see more of what we do as it happens, follow us on Facebook and Instagram where we share updates in real time during training and community events.
In 2022, West Mercia Search & Rescue received the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. It is the highest award given to volunteer groups in the United Kingdom, the equivalent of an MBE for organisations, and it is not given for a single act but for sustained excellence over years. We do not often talk about […]
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When people picture a search, they picture the searchers: torchlight in the trees, a boat on the water, a drone overhead. What they rarely picture is the vehicle parked at the rendezvous point with its lights on all night, because that is where the search is actually run. Our incident command vehicle is the first […]
Our free water safety course, Home and Dry, has now been completed by more than 50,000 people. We are enormously proud of that number, and we want to explain why it matters so much to us. We are a search and rescue team. We respond when someone is already in danger, and we have seen […]
If you follow us on social media, you will have noticed a pattern. A post appears saying our team has been called out, and then, often, nothing more. No location, no details, no outcome. We know that can be frustrating, and we understand why people ask. So here is an honest explanation. Almost everyone we […]
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