That’s it over for another year ! This year’s event was using Ingelby Arncliffe as the base with the route covering the north western area of the North York Moors. A distance of approx. 25 miles taking  over 150 participants over to the Black Hambleton area , Whorlton/Snilesworth  Moors, Carlton Bank and down to Faceby/Swainby areas. The weather could have…

ENTRIES OPEN for The Whalebones Walk 2025. Only five weeks till the event on Sunday 4th May 2025 Thank you to Errington Primary School for hosting us once again and Skelton Coaches for providing our transport to the start line See you there https://clevelandmrt.org.uk/event/whalebones-2025

On Sunday, 16th March 2025, a small contingent of Cleveland Mountain Rescue personnel were invited to take one of our Land Rovers to Staithes RNLI station so that we could do a 'show and tell' to share each others' expertise. We split into groups and were shown the station, rescue boat and our Land Rover.  We demonstrated each others' rescue equipment and shared how each team operated. …

Less than 7 days till entries close at 12 noon on Saturday 22nd March. Event date :Saturday 29th March The 2025 Survival marks the 60th anniversary Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team and the 40th anniversary of The Survival . To celebrate both occasions, a little momento will be given to all finishers. Remember that the location of the event and joining…

Colleagues from other mountain rescue teams as far away as Wales have spent this weekend at our Base providing Search Planning training to Cleveland MRT members (and others from the north-east region). Unfortunately, two of those visitors have been victims of theft whilst staying overnight locally (i.e. last night). A range of mountain rescue equipment was stolen. Some of it…

The Winter edition of Mountain Rescue magazine is now available online (link below). This is the official magazine for MR in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and as usual it contains lots of really useful and interesting articles. An incredible amount of work goes into producing the magazine so, many thanks to the editorial team and all contributors. Even if…

The registration process for applications to join Cleveland MRT as Search & Rescue members is now open. The application process and the requirements for becoming a member of the Team are outlined in detail on the ‘Joining The S&R Team’ page. Please read that information thoroughly. In particular, note the time and commitment expected of Team members - it is…

Some excellent news about a significant donation to Cleveland MRT, inspired by the Stokesley branch of NFU Mutual. The company’s press release is reproduced below with permission: NFU Mutual’s agent and branch offices across the North East have nominated 47 local charities in the region to receive a combined donation of more than £286,000 from a national £1.92m ‘Agency Giving…

Our review of Team activities in 2024 is now available to watch via our YouTube Channel: 2024 Video Over the year, we deployed to 52 call-outs and dealt with 27 other incidents (such as providing safety cover or being on standby) Many, many thanks to our Search & Rescue, Ops Support and Support members who devoted so much of their…

Some photos from the annual Santa Sleigh ride around Great Ayton, which took place on Monday 23rd December 2024. Thank you to everyone who came out to see Santa and for all your donations. We'll get it counted and let you know how much was raised in the next few days. Thanks also to Santa's little helpers from Cleveland MRT…