Why Calder Valley’s ‘mountain rescue’ team deserves your support – The Yorkshire Post says

THERE are countless walkers who owe their lives – literally – to volunteers from the Calder Valley Search and Rescue Team who remain the embodiment of the fourth emergency service.
By YP Comment
Published 9th Jul 2020, 16:35 BST
Calder Valley Search and Rescue team is currently one of the busiest mountain rescue teams in the country. Picture: Pete FarnellCalder Valley Search and Rescue team is currently one of the busiest mountain rescue teams in the country. Picture: Pete Farnell
Calder Valley Search and Rescue team is currently one of the busiest mountain rescue teams in the country. Picture: Pete Farnell

Yet, while their call-outs have increased as a result of more people venturing out during the Covid-19 lockdown, their income has fallen, just like the proverbial stone, because of the cancellation of fundraising events.

It is why The Yorkshire Post urges ramblers, and other outdoor users, to answer the organisation’s SOS appeal for financial help in order to maintain its lifesaving work – and the challenge of carrying out rescue missions in accordance with social distancing guidelines.

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Now one of the largest mountain rescue teams in England and Wales, the terrain covered by the team’s volunteers is still formidable, even if it is not officially classified as being mountainous, and they should never be taken for granted.

This newspaper is backing the work of Calder Valley Search and Rescue Team.This newspaper is backing the work of Calder Valley Search and Rescue Team.
This newspaper is backing the work of Calder Valley Search and Rescue Team.

Editor’s note: first and foremost - and rarely have I written down these words with more sincerity - I hope this finds you well.

Almost certainly you are here because you value the quality and the integrity of the journalism produced by The Yorkshire Post’s journalists - almost all of which live alongside you in Yorkshire, spending the wages they earn with Yorkshire businesses - who last year took this title to the industry watchdog’s Most Trusted Newspaper in Britain accolade.

And that is why I must make an urgent request of you: as advertising revenue declines, your support becomes evermore crucial to the maintenance of the journalistic standards expected of The Yorkshire Post. If you can, safely, please buy a paper or take up a subscription. We want to continue to make you proud of Yorkshire’s National Newspaper but we are going to need your help.

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If you want to help right now, download our tablet app from the App / Play Stores. Every contribution you make helps to provide this county with the best regional journalism in the country.

Sincerely. Thank you.

James Mitchinson

Editor

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