Hi

I am a member of the scottish 4x4 forum based in the highlands their is a few of us wanting to set up a response team we have just started the ball rolling if anybody would like to join and help out please contact myself we are going to meet up some where in inverness on 06/02/10 venue to be confirmed

Thanks

Andrew



contact andrewknox212@btinternet.com

Well done & Welcome



All the Best PJ

Hi Guys, I'm also on the Scottish4x4forum, but some of you might know me from LRBoards.

We're in the very early stages at the moment, but hopefully we can get a response group established in the Highlands

Hi thanks for that we are just trying to organise our first meeting to see how many people want to join I will post time and place nearer the time

Hi all I spoke to the Northern Constabulary & Highland Emergency planning to day and they are both very interested in us setting up a 4x4 response group

hello all, will be attending the response group meeting in inverness,know as jonmcghee on the scottish 4x4 board, hopfully a lot of intrest and first meet will go well.

Just popping in to say I thought todays meeting went really well.



Al

First meeting went well, intrested party's signed up, myself included.

Hi all thanks to every body that turned up today any body that was unable to atend can contact us on highlandresponse@btinternet.com for info

Hi Andrew,



Many congratulations on a job well done...from the Scottish Borders 4x4 Response Team.



Mel

Things are going from strengh to strengh, with 12 members sighed up so far, andrew is working had setting up meetings with local council and police, web site is in the process of being written by another member, committee is growing to name just a few.



I hope Andrew does not mind but thank you Mel for the words of support.



Jon

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Things are going from strengh to strengh, with 12 members sighed up so far, andrew is working had setting up meetings with local council and police, web sight is in the process of being written by another member, committee is growing to name just a few.



I hope Andrew does not mind but thankyou Mel for the words of support.



Jon

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Best of luck with it all Jon. I like your group logo, very stylish indeed.



Cheers

Warren

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Best of luck with it all Jon. I like your group logo, very stylish indeed.



Cheers

Warren

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Thankyou Warren, not sure if it was Andrew and/or Steve (chairman and co chairman) that came up with it but i have to agree it does look good, thanks for the best wishes.



Jon

So between Highlands, COTAG, Scottish Borders and Strathclyde have you got it all covered now?

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So between Highlands, COTAG, Scottish Borders and Strathclyde have you got it all covered now?

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still really the north and south(ish) covered, room across the central belt for a few more groups (i.e tayside)

How are Lothian getting allong.....or have they amalgamated with another group?



Nigel.

I emailed Colin who is the controller of the Lothian group but as yet I've had no reply, but what I can tell you is that they haven't merged with the Scottish Borders Team.

Thanks Mel, I thought it had been a tad quiet from that area lately.....maybe he didn't get enough initial response!



Nigel.

Lothian have applied for registration and we have had a tentative enquiry from Tayside about a group, so things are looking good North of the border.

Hi All,



Lothians are going well, we have a meeting this week and over 20 members. Discussions are ongoing with different bodies regarding the team.



Regards, Colin.

Thanks Colin



Do keep us up to date with what's going on. Same applies for all groups really. If you have anything you want publicising/promoting/or just want to shout about PM to Bob Hatcher (Bob Wessex) who can stick it in the "News" section.

Thanks Tony



i dont think there is to much to update, first interview with papers (Press and journal) was done on sat by chairman and deputy chairman, ment to be in mondays paper, still waiting for them to send a cheque into 4x4 response furom to join fully, websight has been started and is looking great, we are about 15 members so far, first funrasing event will be on the 7th March at whitebridge and will be combining that with a meeting.

Other than that just trying to set up meetings with people around the area to get us established.



jon

Hi Jon,

looking at your joining date things seem to be moving very quickly for your group, so, i just want to ask what were the first steps you took? i.e did you get together with the guys first, or did you approach the authorities first to get them on board?

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Hi Jon,

looking at your joining date things seem to be moving very quickly for your group, so, i just want to ask what were the first steps you took? i.e did you get together with the guys first, or did you approach the authorities first to get them on board?

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hi jay,

I would suggest you talk to Steve or Andrew (chairman & dep chairman) as they are the ones that came up with the idea and they will probably be better to advise you, on what they did first. Give them an email on highlandresponse@btinternet.com and im sure they will be happy to help.

Jon

Article in todays paper: http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Art...604030?UserKey=

Have we a group rep yet set up?

Is that you volunteering Jon?

not that i know, just we should have responder not junior member, i am not sure if its Andrew we pm or we need to sort a rep out?

Have you set up a committee yet? If so it would usually be the chairman who would be your rep, if not who's handing out mebership numbers and signing people up etc - they can do t for now.

Thanks, will pm Andrew as he is the chairman on here.

Still waiting to get up graded to responder and how do we go about getting highland 4x4 response in the scottish section? or does that have to come from rep too?

We currently seem to only have 2 members from highland on here yourself and Al Beaton.

There is Scottish section for all Scottish members to use. Given that thus far there have only been 7 posts total in this area I do not think it really warrants separate forums - if it does later then separate forums will be created. If highland have their own forum etc elsewhere we can put a link in to that in that in the same way as Lothian have a link to their FB page.

Sorry it was within the scottish secection i ment. but i take it i can not post in this because I am still under junior member. I know our web sight if nearly ready to go live, and i would expect Andrew will link web address when ready.

I have upgraded Andrew Knox to group rep, but he has yet to set his group as Highland.

Make that 3 from Highland!
I've been a bit quiet lately as I've been out of the country, but I'm back now.

Unfortunately scottish4x4forum seems to have dissapeared off the face of the earth, so I'm not sure what's happening at the moment.

As far as know steve is working on it to get back on line.

Thanks John

we are back up:D

and response web site is also up

www.highland4x4response.co.uk

hi all,
just to update web sight is up and running, 10 full members so far with more in pipe line, admin here has been pm by our rep to say all this but has no response, our first training day was yesterday (sun 2nd), we are in talks with local police force, so we are getting there slow but sure, and going for charity status to help with funding etc, and also in talks with other groups that might need our help.

if you would like to know more pop on and have a look,

http://www.highland4x4response.co.uk/

and for chat

http://www.scottish4x4forum.com/

Thanks for the update Jon, web site seems to coming along......you'll just be waiting for the next great influx of members now...they should come along with the snow, so any day now then...!!!!

Nigel.