Berkshire Lowland Search & Rescue (SEBEV) are celebrating today after receiving a grant of approx. £10,000 from the Awards for All, Big Lottery Fund.

The grant will be used to overhaul the teams navigation systems, providing new GPS (Global Position System) units as well as the technology to track the search teams in real-time, state of the art mapping software and new laptops to run it all on.

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SEBEV Search & Rescue Team (Berkshire)

Date: 31-03-11

SEBEV Ref: 310311-1

Lynn Davies, wife of SEBEV member Simon will be running the London Marathon this month in aid of SEBEV Search & Rescue.

Lynn says “I am running the London Marathon to raise the profile of SEBEV and the Association of Lowland Search and Rescue, I also want to raise as much as possible to enable them to continue their invaluable work. My target is to complete the race in under 3:40”

Lynn went on to say “Completing the 26.22 miles is not much compared to the amount of miles that SEBEV members cover in a typical year with their training and search operations“

Berkshire based SEBEV Search & Rescue is a UK registered charity (no. 1046861) and has been providing services to the Berkshire and Thames Valley communities since 1980. They are the oldest lowland Search & Rescue team in the UK. The main functions of the team are to assist Thames Valley Police in the search for missing persons (such as children and the elderly) in Berkshire and the surrounding counties, and also to provide support for the local authorities and the statutory emergency services during civil emergencies in the area. The team, based at Easthampstead Park in Wokingham, is available 24 hours a day to search for missing persons. The team is made up wholly of unpaid volunteers who manage their time with search & rescue around work and family commitments.

SEBEV Search & Rescue is always recruiting for operational members and also admin support roles such as PR or fundraising that would suit somebody who wants to be involved but doesn’t want to be a fully operational Search Technician. Full training is given and the team meets at their HQ on the Wokingham/Bracknell border every Thursday evening.

Full details are on our website at www.sebev.co.uk or you can email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Please support Lynn and SEBEV by donating via Paypal

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SEBEV Search & Rescue Team (Berkshire)

“Jumping into action for SEBEV Search & Rescue”

Date:                30-01-11

SEBEV Ref:     300111-1

On March 5th, SEBEV member Alex “AJ” Shepherd will be throwing himself out of an airplane to raise funds for SEBEV Search & Rescue. He will be parachute jumping from 13,000 feet in freefall – not in tandem with an instructor – and will be reaching speeds of up to 120mph. The jump will take place at Hinton Airfield just north of Bicester. Alex 21, has been a member of SEBEV since 2009 and has been involved in many callouts for vulnerable missing persons in that time. As SEBEV is funded by charitable donations Alex decided that he could do something to help.

PRESS RELEASE - SEBEV Search & Rescue Team

“2010 was a busy year for SEBEV Search & Rescue Team”

Date: 07-01-11

SEBEV Ref: 070111-1

Berkshire based Lowland Search & Rescue charity ‘SEBEV’ has today published their end of year statistics for 2010 and it has proved to be a busy year.

In total the 47 strong team of unpaid volunteers (individually known as Search Technicians) gave 6798hrs of their time in callouts, training and events throughout the year.

SEBEV Search & Rescue

Location: Easthampstead Park Conference Centre, Wokingham

Dates: Friday 11th to Sunday 13th February.

Cost: £15 per person (ALSAR or LSDogs team only)

Contact: To book a place on the course please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

This is the fully updated Revision 2 course containing the latest development in Lowland SAR. The course is fully compliant with the ALSAR syllabus.

SEBEV Search & Rescue Team had a busy weekend due to the recent snow fall.

The team were asked to provide 4x4 support on behalf of Oxfordshire Emergency Planners over the week end of 18 & 19 December. The heavy snow south of Oxford meant care workers and hospital staff from the John Radcliffe needed transport to work from homes in Wantage, Didcot and Ashton under Wychwood. Late on Saturday evening two nurses were transported to the hospital and on Sunday a care worker was taken to visit a patient.

Over 267 miles were covered during the period.

Chris Currey, SEBEV Emergency Planning Liaison Officer said "Whilst we are primarily a Search & Rescue team we have also been providing Civil Contingencies support to the Thames Valley council authorities as well as the statutory emergency services since 1980"

Four members of SEBEV attended the UKLSI Search Controllers course in November, together with three established Controllers for refresher training.

This was in addition to four members who attended the Team Leaders course. The Saturday night exercise was interrupted when WilSAR received a request for a missing person search in Melksham.

Two members of SEBEV assisted and the MISPER was found alive and well after about three hours.

Kris Manning, Chairman said "It is very important to us that we maintain the very high levels of service that SEBEV Search & Rescue is known for. UKLSI offers excellent SAR courses in highly specialist subjects such as Search Control & Missing Person Behaviour and we are very pleased to send our members. I am also very pleased that some of our members were involved in the serch on the Saturday night. The chairman of WilSAR stated that a undoubtedly a life was saved that night"