An Excellent Civil War Society Weekend...

What a great weekend in Bradford on Avon this past weekend with the 'invasion' of the English Civil War Society. Our volunteers were out with many other voluntary groups and colleagues from professional agencies to ensure everyone of the thousands of visitors had a safe and enjoyable time at the various events held across the town.


Our new vehicle was much in evidence during the weekend helping to move volunteers and materials around from site to site. A huge thank you to Great Wall Bath dealership for helping to organise the vehicle in time.


A big thank you to our volunteers for giving up their weekends to help. This would never have happened without you. Our advert for volunteers in the back of the programme has already elicited some response which is great!

 Early morning briefing (CEVs in orange)

Skirmish on the bridge (Helping to man the road closure)

Our truck carrying the PA for the event

 

Front row seats for the main battle

Thanks again to all those who made it possible

Kind Regards

Paul Robertson

Senior CEV Coordinator

Our Vehicle has arrived

The majority of our SSEPD resilience Fund money has been spent on the purchase of a 4x4 Great Wall Steed. It arrived by our container this morning and has already been pressed into service helping move cones and barriers around in preparation for the Civil War Re-enactment Event this weekend where we will be crowd marshalling.


Here are a few shots:

Won't be long until it is liveried up and ready for use. We are currently arranging a training programme for its safe use

Kind Regards

Paul Robertson

Senior CEV Coordinator

DEFRA Flood Water training session

A huge thank you to Dave Dunford from Serve On for putting us through our paces on our DEFRA flood water awareness training. It was great for both experienced volunteers to refresh their skills as well as giving new members a chance to pick up these valuable life saving skills.

We were also please to welcome The British Transport Police from Bath Spa who came to observe what we were about. A really good turn out of 13 volunteers tonight with plenty of members of the public stopping and observing us. Really helps to raise our profile in the community

Volunteers readying their throwlines

Being shown some of the hidden dangers on the river

 

 

Its a busy week for the volunteers with Crowd marshalling this weekend for the civil war society event and our 4x4 vehicle being delivered on Friday. Great times ahead!

 

 

Kind Regards

 

 

 

Paul Robertson

Test driving a 4x4...

Following the successful application for the SSEPD Community Resilience Fund we went to Bath Honda yesterday to test drive a Great Wall Steed. If you haven't heard of the make well nor had I until a few months ago. They are very big in China evidently, as well as selling lots in Australia and South Africa although they are called something different. Simon was the test driver whilst I tested out the passenger seats for comfort and knee room. An enjoyable afternoon was had by all and the general consensus was that this type of vehicle would be eminently suitable for all the various needs that we require from it. Just need to find a model for the correct price, spec and colour and then hopefully we can get it on order and sent to the local coachbuilders to be fitted out and liveried.

The vehicle we test drove

 

 

If you like the thought of helping us drive and maintaining this vehicle why not volunteer with us?

Kind Regards


Paul Robertson

A Week of Good news....

Following on from our award win earlier this week we are pleased to announce that we have been awarded a Resilience Fund Grant from SSEPD Community Fund. This will allow us to purchase push along gritters, life jackets and an equipped vehicle to help us in our work.

Many thanks to SSEPD for their fantastic support

Kind Regards




Paul Robertson

It's Official, We're Award Winners!...

The Bradford on Avon Community Emergency Volunteers have been awarded a Public Health Award for 'Promoting Safety and Reducing Harm,' at last nights awards ceremony in County Hall Trowbridge.


It was very humbling to pick up this award having seen the depth and breadth of achievement by all the organisations nominated.


The CEVs had been nominated in two other categories - 'Innovation in Public Health' & 'Outstanding Achievement', however we were very pleased to come away with this official recognition of all our volunteers hard work and effort.


Well done everyone and I look forward to a successful future for our expanding team!

Receiving the award on behalf of the volunteers from the Chief Constable of Wiltshire

And here it is - Hopefully soon to be seen in the town hall!

Kind Regards

Paul Robertson

Senior CEV Coordinator



Snow Warden Training Notes Up

Unfortunately our flood water awareness training had to be cancelled at short notice. So instead our snow warden training was brought forward from July. It was good to have our friends from Melksham there as well.



Testing out the push along Gritter





Simon demonstrating the importance of good PPE drill!


To find out more go to our training notes page


Kind Regards






Paul Robertson




Senior CEV Coordinator