with skills in Searching,Swift Water Rescue , Still Water Rescue and Medical Care SLSAR are seeking to recruit members from various backgrounds , to be able to provide specialist teams to work on there own or with existing agencies at Medical , Flood , Swift Water and Search and Rescue Incidents

Within the Voluntary Arena , SLSAR will and are seeking to forge Links with other agencies and groups across the county and the Country as a whole

The Vision

We aim to provide a team of volunteers who have the required skills, experience and local knowledge as well as the necessary equipment and communications facilities to be able to be of genuine assistance to all the emergency services. We will provide this service at any time of the day or night, without charge, in any situation where one of the official emergency services or other approved organisations decides that there efforts would benefit from the kind of support that we can offer.

All members of the team are unpaid volunteers and come from all walks of life, but all have one thing in common a desire to help others and to prevent harm coming to others. We currently have team members who are Doctors, Nurses, managing directors, IT contractors, builders and paramedics (to name but a few). This range of professions provides a vast array of skills which are regularly called upon - whether it be during a call-out, or behind-the-scenes maintaining and supporting the team, its members and equipment.
Through understanding what each member is able to offer in skills, qualifications and experience we are able to build a membership base that we know will meet the challenges that are placed upon us.
To make best use of these skills, the team elect operational team members into various positions of responsibility. These include officers, who are specialists in a particular operational area and may also act as consultant and advisor to the team. Such positions include the Training Officer, Equipment Officer, Communications Officer and Medical Officer.

Our membership is made of people who wish to be able to give something back to the local community. What better way than to assist our local emergency services in times of need when they are at there most stretched.

Mission Statement

To foster the safety of and provide and maintain an effective Rescue/Community First Response service for the assistance of any human being or boat (or animal where health and safety allows) of any nature in peril from the sea or land in the area South Lakeland in the county of Cumbria, and the county of Cumbria as a whole.

SLSAR is made up entirely of Volunteers who give there time, energy and skills for free to provide this vital service to the local community