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News for 2021

Some of these news items may well be history by the time we have caught up with our

busy schedule, but for your pleasure and delight, more “up to the minute” feeds &

notifications can be quickly accessed directly via our Facebook and Twitter feeds by

clicking on the appropriate icons at the top of each page, or by using these links :-

We will continue to add more content as resources permit…………..

Christmas Tree Collection & Disposal - 6th to 15th Jan 2022

Several of our Responders will be collecting Christmas trees to help raise funds for St Michael's Hospice. Click here or on the link above to see if you still have time to get your tree collected to help this wonderful organisation. Operation “Jab” - Sat & Sun18th/19th Dec 2021 Herefordshire County Council have requested our assistance at another "Super Weekend" assisting with marshalling and traffic control as a part of the National vaccination initiative being run at Hereford Cattle Market, Roman Road, Hereford HR4 7AN, and at Elgar House, Holmer Rd., HR4 9BD in continuing the fight-back against Covid-19 and the latest Omicron variant outbreak. We are pleased to be helping out with this very important service to continue in the efforts to keep everyone safer over Christmas, the new year and potentially over the next few months. See you there if you have managed to book a place through the correct channels? Induction & Safety Training - Sun 21st Nov 2021 Through the great generosity, flexibility and co-operation of The New Harp Inn and Tressack Camp Site, we ran a “by invitation” induction and throw line training course utilising these excellent adjacent facilities at Hoarwithy. Our very grateful thanks to Jeff at Tressack, and to Adrian and his bar staff who looked after us at the New Harp Inn for their valuable help; we couldn’t have done it without you. It was a great morning in lovely sunshine (thanks for laying that on too!). We signed up 5 new Responders who will undergo further induction & training very soon. (A warm welcome to each of you). We hope to run similar sessions again in the future, so if you are interested in joining us, please use our Contact page or click here to let us know. Bromyard Christmas Lights - Sat 20th Nov 2021 We attended the excellent town of Bromyard again this year from 10:45am until 6:30pm to assist with road closures and safety marshalling for when the lights were switched on at 5:15pm What a great day! This is one not to be missed and we hope to be there again next year. Well done and merry Christmas Bromyard! Race for Life - Sat & Sun 16th/17th Oct 2021 We plan to offer our support to this 2 day event, in Worcester, when responders may choose which days they want to volunteer (or for both of course!). These runs are organised nationally by Cancer Research UK, and this one involves multiple courses around Worcester Racecourse and Gheluvelt Park. Due to the size of this event over the weekend, we are happy to again combine our efforts with extra responders and our good friends from Gloucestershire & Worcestershire 4X4 Response See you there ?

Eastnor Mud Run - Sun 10th Oct 2021

Our responders will join in the fun on the day at the Eastnor Castle Deer Park to Marshall the event and

the route to ensure the safety of competitors and their guests and all of the expected attendees. Come

and join us!

Run Hereford - Sun 19th Sept 2021

With additional support from our neighbours; Gloucestershire & Worcestershire 4X4 Response, we

turned out to marshal the routes and control the car parking for this great event organised by our

friends at St. Michael’s Hospice. What an inspirational day, and really great fun! Well done to all of

the runners in any of the 3 distances covered, which were 5K, 10K or the half marathon.

The Paint Runner - Sat 7th Aug 2021 Think summer; think fun, think Paint Runner! We plan to be marshalling at Old bridge and Castle Street in Hereford, from around 9 am to 2pm, and throwing powder from the orange paint station at the King George V Playing Fields as the willing runners soak up the summer spirit by being drenched in colour along the easy five-kilometre course that will feature lots more colourful paint stations apart from “ours”. Venus Walk - 9th July 2021 We have again been asked by St. Michael’s Hospice to support their Venus midnight walk event on Friday night/Sat morning 9th/10th July. We shall be assisting with marshalling the route in and around Hereford City from around 8:30 pm until 2am. Eastnor Castle - 20th June 2021 SOS displays from the local emergency services We shall be attending “Eastnor SOS” with some of our partner service personnel for the day at Eastnor Castle. Come over and see us to say “Hello” Water & Flood Awareness Training - 27th March 2021 Our 2nd batch of a further 9 Responders attended the one day course delivered by Anthony Eddies- Davies from Adventure Consultancy whilst observing Covid-19 restrictions (although all of our attendees have received their first jabs and are booked-in for their follow up vaccinations). These courses are administered by Rescue 3 Europe who are the only body to offer an internationally recognised certification which is valid for three years. More sessions will be made available to us as we begin to ease further out of national Lockdown #3. (Addendum - 8 more places are now allocated for the next batch of Responders to be booked in for our 3rd session which is due on Saturday 17th July)

RoSpa Training - from 4th Mar 2021

All of our Responders will now undertake the RoSPA Driver Safety Online course. The management committee has agreed that this course will be compulsory and (currently) funded for all existing responders and for new responders as they join the Group. The course comprises of three sections, to be undertaken on-line and will take up to two hours to complete.

Covid-19 Vaccinations - 11th Feb 2021

All of our responders were offered their first Pfizer Vaccine via an exclusive application and invitation to Hereford County Hospital with a second “jab” to follow in 12 weeks time. Yet another opportunity to say “Thank you, NHS”……….

Radio appeal - Saturday 30th Jan 2021

Our Training Officer, Bob Miles, joined Andrew Easton's Saturday Breakfast show on BBC Hereford & Worcester, requesting help with our equipment storage at 08:53am….. thanks Andrew! We much appreciated the publicity to give us some “airtime” when we were very likely to be called out again due to floods, particularly around Ledbury. The interview can be listened to below:- Within minutes of the interview, Bob was mobilised as Controller for the group, to arrange collection of a District nurse stranded at home by floodwater in Ledbury, needing to get to patients in Colwall when we responded immediately. Last call of the day was signed off at 20:13 hrs…….

Standby & Call out ! - Sunday 24th Jan 2021

……from 06:50 to 21:30, (during Covid-19 Lockdown #3) due to snow and icy road conditions. Calls were centred around the movement of Doctors, Nurses, and NHS support staff between Hereford County Hospital (HCH), from/to Worcester, Kidderminster, and into Wales, whilst District nurses were accompanied through their daily rounds to ensure patients were provided with their essential daily medical care. Recommended procedures for Responder and passenger safety were adhered to throughout with all Responders having been issued detailed instruction in the utilisation and subsequent safe disposal of potentially infectious PPE. We are grateful to the NHS for providing additional PPE to our own supplies in what proved to be a very busy day on Sunday. The icy conditions continued into Monday 25th Jan when we transported dedicated staff to St. Michael’s Hospice. We attended to 14 specific transportation tasks covering 577 miles over 2 days of very cold weather.

Standby - 21st & 22nd Jan 2021

Our response group were requested to *STANDBY* for the NHS and for Herefordshire Council due to forecast inclement weather conditions from storm Christoph when we were again treated to flood conditions in the County with 12 flood alerts and a further 13 flood warnings being issued with river levels expected to remain high. We made a number of journeys on 22nd January.

Christmas Tree Collection & Disposal - 9th Jan 2021

Several (correctly PPE’d!) responder crews were out again this year on Saturday collecting Christmas trees from householders in and around Hereford from pre-booked donations & appointments arranged through St. Michael’s Hospice for responsible disposal. This looks like it may well become a “regular gig” each year. We are always delighted to help St. Michael’s, and hope to do more for them in 2021 and beyond.

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News for

2021

Some of these

news items may

well be history

by the time we

have caught up

with our busy

schedule, but for

your pleasure

and delight, more

“up to the

minute” feeds &

notifications can

be quickly

accessed directly

via our Facebook

and Twitter feeds

by clicking on the

appropriate icons

at the top of

each page, or by

using these links

:-

We will continue to add more

content as resources

permit…………..

Christmas Tree

Collection &

Disposal - 6th to

15th Jan 2022

Eastnor Mud Run

- Sun 10th Oct

2021

Our responders will join in the

fun on the day at the Eastnor

Castle Deer Park to Marshall

the event and the route to

ensure the safety of

competitors and their guests

and all of the expected

attendees. Come and join us!

Run Hereford -

Sun 19th Sept

2021

With additional support from

our neighbours; Gloucestershire

& Worcestershire 4X4

Response, we turned out to

marshal the routes and control

the car parking for this great

event organised by our friends

at St. Michael’s Hospice. What

an inspirational day, and really

great fun! Well done to all of

the runners in any of the 3

distances covered, which were

5K, 10K or the half marathon.

The Paint Runner - Sat 7th Aug 2021 Think summer; think fun, think Paint Runner! We plan to be marshalling at Old bridge and Castle Street in Hereford, from around 9 am to 2pm, and throwing powder from the orange paint station at the King George V Playing Fields as the willing runners soak up the summer spirit by being drenched in colour along the easy five-kilometre course that will feature lots more colourful paint stations apart from “ours”. Venus Walk - 9th July 2021 We have again been asked by St. Michael’s Hospice to support their Venus midnight walk event on Friday night/Sat morning 9th/10th July. We shall be assisting with marshalling the route in and around Hereford City from around 8:30 pm until 2am. Eastnor Castle - 20th June 2021 SOS displays from the local emergency services We shall be attending “Eastnor SOS” with some of our partner service personnel for the day at Eastnor Castle. Come over and see us to say “Hello” Water & Flood Awareness Training - 27th March 2021 Our 2nd batch of a further 9 Responders attended the one day course delivered by Anthony Eddies-Davies from Adventure Consultancy whilst observing Covid-19 restrictions (although all of our attendees have received their first jabs and are booked-in for their follow up vaccinations). These courses are administered by Rescue 3 Europe who are the only body to offer an internationally recognised certification which is valid for three years. More sessions will be made available to us as we begin to ease further out of national Lockdown #3. (Addendum - 8 more places are now allocated for the next batch of Responders to be booked in for our 3rd session which is due on Saturday 17th July)