South Lakes search & Rescue is a Volunteer Search and Rescue team based in Ulverston , Cumbria .

South Lakes Search and Rescue is dedicated to providing professional Search & Rescue Teams & Swift Water/Flood rescue teams , when requested by our emergency services, performing in a responsible, accountable and compassionate manner . This web site contains information about the team, pictures of us in action, an ongoing blog of our activities, acts as a portal for information about South Lakes Search & Rescue Who we are, what we do and were we are going

South Lakes Search and Rescue is guided by the following values. They influence our conduct collectively as a group and as individual team members. We strive to have our actions reflect these values, demonstrate personal accountability and be publicly defensible

• Integrity
• Compassion
• Respect
• Accountability: To the subject, To the team, To ourselves
• Professionalism: in our level of conduct and in how we carry out tasks
• Dedication
• Teamwork

We will respond nationally to flood rescue and search calls as well as emergency swift water rescue and flooding incidents within Cumbria with expertise in the following area's :


Searches for Missing Persons

Flood Rescue

Fast Water Rescue

Still Water Rescue

Support at public events

with skills in Swiftwater Rescue Searching,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