Fundraising Event Tesco Extra Quedgley On Saturday 14th January 2012 RAPID UK will be holding a fund raising event at the Tesco Extra Store in Quedgley. Tracy Milton will be co-ordinating the event and will be contacting members about the event shortly.
The London to Brighton Challenge Jo Cracknell, RAPID UK’s Canine Co-ordinator and Andy Harris one of its most experienced dog handlers are putting a team together to participate in the London to Brighton Challenge. Details of the event are at www.london2brightonchallenge.com. If you would like to sponsor our team or support them in this demanding event please contact JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING
Great British Jigsaws John Taylor a regular supporter of RAPID UK has launched a new venture called Great British Jigsaws. For every Autumn Leaves jigsaw (http://www.gbjigsaws.co.uk/jigsawccc1005.html) that is sold RAPID UK will receive £0.50.
Phase 2. Sixteen new recruits joined RAPID UK in 2010. Their training will culminate with the very demanding Phase 2 assessment exercise in April 2012. More details of the exercise including firsthand accounts by the participants will appear here in due course.
IEC Assessment. RAPID expects that the United Nations INSARAG organisation will carry out an IEC Assessment of its search and rescue capability in November 2012. The inspectors will review all aspects of its procedures, its technical search and rescue capability, its training and its equipment to ensure that RAPID UK is fit for purpose.
| December 2011 | 9th - 11th | Christmas Party |
| January 2012 | 13th - 15th | |
| March 2012 | 9th - 11th | |
| April 2012 | 10th - 15th | Phase 2 |
| May 2012 | 11th - 13th | AGM Weekend |
| June 2012 | 15th - 17th | |
| Juy 2012 | 13th - 15th | |
| August 2012 | 10th - 12th | |
| September 2012 | 14th - 16th | |
| October 2012 | 12th - 14th | |
| November 2012 | 9th - 11th | |
| November 2012 | 26th - 30th | IEC Assessment |
| December 2012 | 14th - 16th | |
GEA Turkey were one of the first teams from within Turkey to respond to the recent earthquake. As you will note the team rescued 24 people from the collapsed buildings, which is a fantastic achievement and of course also a tremendous success for RAPID UK. Following the two 1999 earthquakes in Turkey RAPID UK trained up teams for GEA some of which was funded by the British Embassy. From 1999 to 2003 several training periods were carried out, followed by equipment donations, which shaped the GEA team of today. RAPID UK continues to carry out training for GEA upon request with the last training visits during 2010.