We were delighted to welcome Trevor Sayer from SERV Kent Bloodrunners Volunteers who gave a talk at our monthly meeting. He outlined how SERV, Service by Emergency Response, was formed, how they operate and who they work with. £46.64 was raised at the meeting with a further donation of £50 from South East 4x4 Response […]
Our South East 4x4 Response Committee would like thank our 74 active members. Members gave up 4151 hours of personal time to cover 21311 miles in their own vehicles over the last year during call outs, supporting a variety of events, local parishes, and fundraising. Quite an achievement when all are volunteers!
Members of our team of volunteers have been out supporting Cancer Research's Race for Life in Tunbridge Wells. Starting at 6am, our volunteers transported signs and other equipment to mark the course. Race for Lifers ran distances of 5k and 3k raising funds for the Cancer Research. It was a pleasure to be there supporting […]
Volunteers from South East 4x4 Response were delighted to join the Kent Fire and Rescue Service Safer Sheppey and Kent Fire and Rescue Service Safer Ramsgate. Both days had plenty of fun activities for families with primary age children. The focus for the days being to learn how to stay safe in the event of […]
Responders went to support a search with Kent Search and Rescue in the Tonbridge area. The missing person was found safe and well.
One of our winter deployments this year was in and around the village of Yalding, owing to flooding in the area. The residents are always incredibly generous with cups of tea, biscuits and cake to those responders manning road closures during floods. This week, our Chairman, David Mills, assisted by responders Stuart and Cameron, gave […]
South East 4x4 Responders were out supporting Kent Search and Rescue's Kent Charity Trek, manning marshal points and providing support at White Horse Wood. Kent Search and Rescue, a charity we work closely with, created the event for other Kent-based charities, to help as many people as possible in our local community. Walkers had the […]
Two of our team responded late last night to a call from Kent Search and Rescue. They provided transport for the search teams looking for a missing 77 year old.
As a member of the Kent Voluntary Sector Emergency Group (KVSEG), South East 4x4 Response were pleased to have a stand within the Resilience Fayre area to show our capabilities which KMRF members could use in an emergency situation. A series of interesting talks were attended by all, both KMRF and KSVEG groups. It was […]
Our AGM saw the appointment of a new treasurer for the group along with annual reports given from all the committee members who highlighted key developments during the previous year. A raffle for second hand digital radios, kindly donated by Bexley Council, gave the 5 winning members the opportunity to have their own radio. The […]
