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About Pidley Mountain Rescue Charity

The Pidley Mountain Rescue Team Charity Club was founded over 30 years ago, and was revived in 1999 after a short break, raising money each month to provide a piece of equipment to a disabled person in the County of Huntingdonshire, to ensure it improved their respective quality of life. It is the only registered charity in the United Kingdom that prides itself in not having any overheads whatsoever, and every single penny raised goes to a disabled individual with special needs. The charities name came from a chance remark, when Bob Johnson who died in 2004 aged 97, broke down in his Vauxhall Chevette in 1971 on one of the slopes that you have to climb to enter the village. Many people stopped to push him up the hill and to his home, and remarked, it was a mountain and it had been a rescue, and that is how the charity evolved, as simple as that.

Thank you for taking the time to read this potted history of the club, and I know you will enjoy becoming a valued member of this famous club, based in the dead centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. The team is based at Pidley Village Hall and Social Club, Warboys Road, Pidley, 88 feet above sea level, the highest point in the fens. Our corporate symbol of an abseiling child can be seen abseiling the village hall and social club bell tower.

We extend a warm welcome to you, your family and friends at all our events and functions held at the Village Hall and Social Club in Pidley.

Gil Boyd
 

Trustees

The Trustees are made up of local people who give of their time and energy to ensure the target for each month is met. We do not produce glossy newsletters but, the team features regularly in the local press and we advertise all charity events in advance, and an annual general meeting outlines the public donations spent on individuals during the past year. All previous targets and future targets and events are contained on our web site. It is the only charity where the Post Office sponsor all postage requirements.

Membership

The Pidley Mountain Rescue Team is proud to have a celebrity membership, made up of famous people such as Sir Ranulph Fiennes our very own 'consultant mountaineer'. Dame Norma and Sir John Major, Lord David Renton, Sir Brian Mawhinney, Gary Numan, Lesley Vickerage of ITV's Soldier Soldier, and Caroline Lennon of the Archers, Dave 'Boy' Green, the European and British boxing champion, and many more.

To become a member of this world exclusive club, costs just £10.  For this small sum you will become a life member knowing that your money will go directly to a persons request for assistance, and provide them with a piece of equipment to raise their respective quality of life.  Simply complete the Membership Form on this site and send it together with your cheque and a long stamped addressed envelope to the address on the form.

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