# Braemar Mountain Rescue Association

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC008652
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** May 2, 1968
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC008652


## Contact

- **Address:** 23 Albert Road, Monaltrie, Ballater, Aberdeenshire
- **Postcode:** AB35 5QL
- **Website:** www.braemarmountainrescue.org.uk



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the saving of lives&#x27;,&#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;

**What the charity does:** Based in Braemar and Ballater and providing a mountain rescue response to the Southern Cairngorms, Glenshee, Lochnagar and Deeside areas.  The team attends in excess of forty incidents each year.   As well as our involvement in mountain rescue work, which is now in the hands of a well-trained and well equipped team of almost 40 volunteers, the Association is involved in training, fund-raising and looking after our equipment, bases and vehicles. We also provide assistance to Police Scotland in the search for missing persons.  Winter is the busiest time for our team. We work closely with the UK Search and Rescue helicopter service and the Scottish Avalanche Information Service as part of our training and on callouts.

**Objectives:** 4.1 to encourage, co-ordinate and support financially the activities of its members in the assistance of anyone suffering accident primarily on the hills and moorland of Deeside but any other place where the committee may direct.  4.2 to acquire suitable equipment for Mountain Rescue activities including training and to raise funds and administer them for these purposes.  4.3 to further the cause of Mountain Safety and Mountain Rescue in any other way,





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** Aberdeenshire
- **Geographical spread:** More than one local authority area in Scotland






