The team is a registered charity who relies entirely on the generosity of the public and other organisations for donations and funding. Our primary responsibility is to provide a search and rescue service to the area covered by Northumbria Police. This vast area encompasses all of Northumberland and Tyne and Wear and is approximately five thousand square kilometres (three thousand square miles). As a secondary responsibility the team can be called upon to assist neighbouring mountain rescue teams, in the North East region, during protracted or difficult incidents and the team can call upon these neighbours to give assistance during similar circumstances.
The team are available and can be called out 24 hours per day and 365 days per year. We are called out by the police and operate under their authority when a search and rescue incident occurs, and whilst called a mountain rescue team, we are often used by the police in lowland and even urban searches when our specialist skills are required.
Many thanks to everyone that took part in the Cheviots Challenge event on Saturday. Thanks to all of you who have been in touch to say how much you enjoyed the challenge event. We enjoyed seeing you all on the day and it was great to see so many smiling faces at the end.
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