Oldham Mountain Rescue Team

26/05/2026

It's the final countdown 🏃‍♂️

Dovestone Diamond multi-terrain race takes place tomorrow eve (Wednesday 27 May) and we’re just about ready to welcome everyone.

Whether you're racing, chasing a PB, tackling your first multi-terrain event, or simply coming for the atmosphere, we can’t wait to see you all out there.

A huge thank you goes out to everyone helping bring this event together behind the scenes, along with all of our volunteers and supporters.

Special thanks to Best Food Logistics for their generous donation of water to keep everyone refreshed, and to Up & Running Oldham for providing the race vest numbers – your support is hugely appreciated.

We’re also excited to have Pizza’ere joining us and Coffee Pod, and Physio Matters Neurological Ltd providing pre and post race sports massages for a donation to OMRT.

All money raised from this event will go towards our Vehicle Replacement Fundraising Project. And even if you're not participating you can still donate towards this project. 👇

www.justgiving.com/campaign/omrtvehiclesfundraiser

Now all that’s left is to enjoy the trails, the climbs, the views and the brilliant running community atmosphere. 🎊

See you on the start line! 🏁🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️

24/05/2026

22/05/26

On Friday afternoon we were called to support North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) with a report of a walker who had fallen in Birchen Clough, near Dovestones.

Volunteer team members made their way by team 4x4 vehicles up past Greenfield reservoir to the bottom of Birchen Clough. The rescue party then headed up the Clough on foot with a paramedic, towards the casualty located near the waterfall.
After being checked by the paramedic, the casualty was carefully escorted down the rocky challenging path of Birchen Clough to the waiting vehicles, for onward care with the paramedic.

🕒 Duration: 2 hours 45 minutes
👥 Team members involved: 10

Oldham Mountain Rescue Team is on call 24/7 and funded entirely by generous donations and grants ❤️.
If you’d like to support our work, please consider donating:

https://www.justgiving.com/charity/oldham-mrt

21/05/2026

Oldham Mountain Rescue Team are very proud to congratulate Peter Hyde, our President, who has been awarded the national Mountain Rescue England and Wales (MREW) Distinguished Service Award by MREW President Ray Griffiths for his dedication and service to Mountain Rescue over the past 60 years.

A well deserved award - Congratulations Peter! 👏

📸 Peter receiving his award from Ray at the MREW National Meeting.

19/05/2026

A huge thank you to Saddleworth WI for their incredibly generous donation of £2,000 to Oldham Mountain Rescue Team 👏👏.

Over many years, we have been fortunate to benefit from the tireless fundraising efforts and continued support of this fantastic community group. As a charity, OMRT is entirely funded through donations and grants, and it is thanks to the generosity of organisations and individuals like Saddleworth WI that we are able to continue providing our service to those who need us most.

Whether helping people when they are injured, vulnerable, lost, or in crisis, community support enables us to remain ready to respond 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Thank you once again to everyone at Saddleworth WI for your ongoing support — it truly makes a difference.



Pictured; Joint Presidents of Saddleworth WI Ella and Alison along with Team Members Helena, Andy and Peter.

15/05/2026

Two Weeks to go!

We are now in the final stages of preparation of the Dovestone Diamond Multi Terrain Race. Over recent days we have been checking out the registration area, event start and key locations along the course to ensure everything is in place.

There will also be a pizza and hot drinks available to purchase, along with post-event massages for participants.

🏃🏃‍♀️Not signed up yet?

We have a limited number of places left with your name on! And you have just enough time to sleep on it before the deadline - Saturday 16 May at 12:00pm.

Get your space booked 👉 https://tinyurl.com/37v2yrx8

13/05/2026

Massive thank you to the CraggRunner community and the CragRunner organisers Darren and Joolz for raising this amount of money for the Team.
Whilst on the way to the 5 Trigs event to say thanks we were diverted to assist North West Ambulance Service with a patient with a broken leg in a difficult to access location.
It's donations like this that allows us to provide this service to the community in the local area. After the incident we headed back to the event to catch up with Darren and Joolz to say thanks.
Check out their races here https://craggrunner.com/

Oldham Mountain Rescue and Craggrunner would like to say a huge thank you to all of our generous participants who have donated so far this year.

Together, we have raised a fantastic £760 so far in 2026. Dave and Ian from Oldham Mountain Rescue Team popped down to our Five Trigs event on Saturday to receive the good news.

Your donations make such a difference to the incredible work Mountain Rescue do. Their service is funded entirely by voluntary donations and, whilst we all hope we never need them, one day it could be any of us relying on their help.

Thank you again for your continued support 💙

12/05/2026

10/05/26

On Sunday morning, OMRT were called by North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) after they received an emergency call from a party of four walkers, where one member of the group had fallen and injured themselves on the upper edge path at Ashway, Dovestones.

A rapid response party was deployed to the location, while additional volunteer team members collected the stretcher and additional medical equipment in preparation for a possible carry-out.

On reaching the casualty, it became clear they had fallen on a steep, scrambly section of the path, resulting in a suspected upper arm fracture.

One of OMRT’s qualified Remote Rescue Medical Technicians assessed the casualty and administered pain relief. Due to the location and the challenging terrain involved in a stretcher carry to a vehicle access point, assistance was requested from the North West Air Ambulance.

The casualty was carefully transferred onto our stretcher before being carried for 10 minutes to the waiting helicopter, for onward travel to hospital and further treatment.

🕒 Duration: 3 hour 45 minutes
👥 Team members involved: 12

Oldham Mountain Rescue Team is on call 24/7 and funded entirely by generous donations and grants ❤️.
If you’d like to support our work, please consider donating:

https://www.justgiving.com/charity/oldham-mrt

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10/05/2026

09/05/26

On Saturday afternoon, we were called by North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) to assist with a casualty who had sustained a suspected broken leg after slipping on wet ground in woodland at Sholver, Oldham.

Team members worked alongside paramedics to apply a vacuum splint to stabilise the injury and then carefully transferred the casualty onto a stretcher. They were then carried back up the track to the waiting ambulance for onward care.
We wish the casualty a full and speedy recovery.

🕒 Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
👥 Team members involved: 13

Oldham Mountain Rescue Team is on call 24/7 and funded entirely by generous donations and grants ❤️.
If you’d like to support our work, please consider donating:

https://www.justgiving.com/charity/oldham-mrt

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07/05/2026

04/05/26

On Monday morning, we were called to assist North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) with a walker who had sustained an ankle injury near Greenfield Reservoir at Dovestones.

Following treatment from the paramedics, our volunteer team members carefully transferred the casualty onto the stretcher and carried them from the dam wall to the waiting ambulance for onward care.

🕒 Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
👥 Team members involved: 13

Oldham Mountain Rescue Team is on call 24/7 and funded entirely by generous donations and grants ❤️.
If you’d like to support our work, please consider donating:

https://www.justgiving.com/charity/oldham-mrt

nwasofficial North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust