Trampers have been provided in a number of locations by Morecambe Bay Partnership and more info about this great service and how to hire them can be found at Ways around the Bay.
We were contacted by the Mission Heritage Centre Trust who were storing the Sunderland Point tramper in the porch of the Mission building which was difficult to access. Our grant has allowed them to build a much easier to access dedicated storage buidling.

​Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team support the police, ambulance and other statutory emergency services providing search & rescue, medical, flood and swiftwater rescue, technical rope rescue and severe weather support for those in need. This includes treating and rescuing injured or lost hikers and runners on the fells, mountain bikers, climbers, horse riders, as well as searching for vulnerable or high risk missing people.
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The team is made up entirely of volunteers and who are on call 24/7 to provide support whenever it is needed. They rely entirely on grants and donations to remain operational. This includes purchasing medical equipment and lifesaving drugs, maintaining their vehicles, stretchers and rescue kit as well as ensuring team members are safely equipped to work in any conditions.

A number of the 3R team have many years experience in Search & Rescue so we always happy to help our colleagues in the SAR community.

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They meet on the first Sunday evening in each month for activities, discussions and to play games. They are involved within the community and had a cake stall for the Coronation Weekend and have undertaken a beach clean up.
The church houses the Warton Community Library for adults and the young people wanted to set up a community library for their age group which they will run themselves. They were looking for funding to buy new and good second hand books suitable for 9-14 ages, which would be available to borrow free of charge for anyone from the village.
Instead of simply making a grant award for this the 3R grants committee suggested that the group selects books (and book cases) from the 3R charity shop stock over a few months. As the shop sells paperback books for 50p and hardbacks for a £1 it meant the funds went much further and the group received many more books than then would have if they had bought them new. A lovely bit of reciprocal recycling!!
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