Brecon Mountain Rescue Team announce £1.1m fundraising target to build new headquarters has been achieved! Brecon Mountain Rescue Team has announced that a vital fundraising appeal to build a much-needed new headquarters has been successful – and the project can now go full steam ahead!
The dedicated team of volunteers provide an emergency rescue service 24-hours a day, 365 days-a-year – saving the lives of those most in need, throughout mid Wales. The growing demand for their help means they are in urgent need of a new base.
For the past year the team have been raising funds for the project – and have successfully obtained grants and donations (including from a public fundraising appeal) totalling the £1.1million needed for the new headquarters on the outskirts of Brecon. This will enable them to respond more quickly to emergencies, train as one team together, and expand their community educational activities. The new HQ will also have a training room available for other community organisations to utilise for their own purposes.
Brecon Mountain Rescue Team leader, Dr Rob Powell, said: “We are thrilled that we finally have the funds to build our new headquarters. Our members have been planning this for many years, and it is wonderful that it is now going to happen. We are so very grateful to the many people who have helped us to achieve this, and those who have displayed great generosity. It means that our dedicated volunteers can continue to save lives throughout mid Wales, for many decades to come”.
“We can access places that no other service can reach. As well as finding, treating, and rescuing walkers, climbers, fell-runners, mountain bikers and kayakers, we also assist the most vulnerable in our communities - people living with dementia, people who are suffering with their mental health, flood victims, and missing adults and children”.
Planning permission for the new building (on the same site as the existing one on the Ffrwdrech industrial estate) has already been granted, and the team are hoping that work will begin in the Spring – to be completed by the end of 2023.
The team still need to continue their fundraising efforts as they have to raise £55,000 themselves, every year, for their day-to-day operating costs as they receive no government or external funding and operate entirely on a voluntary basis. In addition, although the £1.1m total project cost includes a contingency, the current economic crisis which has seen costs rise dramatically, means that the team want to boost funds further in order to create a comfortable cushion for the project.
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