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£68,000 funding boost for Mountain Rescue

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Helen Webster

Newly-formed Hebrides MRT training

The UK Government has announced that the 24 Scottish mountain rescue teams will share an extra £68,000 this year. The announcement follows vigorous campaigning to make Mountain Rescue exempt from VAT. This has not happened but
instead Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, and Inverness, Badenoch and Strathspey MP, said a total of £200,000 extra money would be split between all the UK mountain and cave rescue services which are affiliated to national bodies. Three more years of grants are expected.

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