There are many in our communities who believe that they would like to put something back into there community or volunteer for a service or charity etc. For whatever that reason, one such group of volunteers provides for those who live and work and take recreation on Dartmoor a valuable if not crucial volunteer service - Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team (Ashburton). There many such Teams up and down the country, and I for one have always been grateful as a hill/fell walker, and have in the back of my mind the knowledge that if any accident were to occur it would probably be one of the S&R Teams that would sort it. it takes commitment, time and a great deal of family understanding, and not a little personal risk to work in some of the more isolated parts of both our Moor and the hills and fells of this nation.
Therefore it was a great pleasure as President of the Rotary Club of Ashburton Buckfastleigh that I presented a cheque to DSRT(Ashburton) for £2k this week. The monies raised came from the generous donations and purchases of pictures at our annual ARTEX exhibition held by kind permission of the Abbot and Community of Buckfast Abbey.
I can do no better that to give the link to their web site:
http://www.dsrtashburton.org.uk/rotarynov12/
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