Tayside Mountain Rescue - Voluntary Emergency Service

Tayside Mountain Rescue - Introduction

Supported by the public serving the public…
Tayside Mountain Rescue team is a registered charity a voluntary emergency service and is supported by the public serving the public.
Tayside MRT is one of 28 teams in Scotland providing a 24 hour service 365 days per year. Our rescue team members are entirely dedicated volunteers who sacrifice precious family time, work time with employer support, their hobbies especially mountaineering but more so.. they place themselves in a hostile environment without hesitation, to care, support and evacuate injured hill walkers and climbers to definitive hospital care.
Our team work closely with our Multi-agency partners : Tayside Police Search and Rescue Unit; RAF Search & Rescue ; Scottish Ambulance Service; Tayside Fire & Rescue Service.

Incident Listing Tayside MRT
This report covers the period from: 01/01/2009 to 31/12/2009.

Cost to deliver a mountain rescue emergency service...
Our men and women need trained in a vast range of skills, from medical training in pre hospital care to dealing with wilderness trauma and medical problems, assist with suicide’s and people lost who are coping with metal health illnesses. Summer or Winter our team members need to know how to search and locate lost people but stay safe at the same time.
They need to learn to cope with harsh winter weather and of course travel safely in the Scottish winter mountains especially with avalanche threats and poor visibility are trying to stop us from getting to the patient in need.
To do our job the team needs to be properly clothed and equipped to cope with all the elements and nasty’s the weather can throw at us and along with special rescue equipment and vehicles we strive to function as an efficient emergency service.
On average it will cost around £30,000 per annum to run a team between 25 and 30 team members.

It’s all voluntary…
Our team members do this job without financial remuneration or for any other gift, however, the greatest reward they do receive is saving lives’ “making a real difference between life and death”. The government do not pay for this service but do provide a small annual contribution which is less than 10% of our operational costs per annum. The greatest reward our members receive is the feeling of satisfaction to help another in need and to know the public support what they do.

Did you know!

The highest proportion of mountain accidents involve mainly climbers?

72.6% of people rescued in the Scottish mountains are all hill-walkers with a good level of hill experience.

If you can help in any way such as provide a service, donate much needed cash then please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Many thanks for your support