Hampshire Search and Rescue (HANTSAR), a registered charity, is a Lowland Rescue team providing professionally trained volunteers to assist the police with searches for vulnerable missing people (such as children, the elderly or despondent). Set up in 2003, HANTSAR is staffed entirely by volunteers, both operational members who carry out the searches and support members who provide back-up with administration and fundraising activities. It has no paid staff. The charity receives no Government or other funding and is dependent on its own fundraising efforts. The charity relies heavily on the generosity of the general public to fund the running costs of its operational role together with the costs of development projects and equipment replacement.
Our Incident Control Vehicle (ICV) is 17 years old and is now reaching the end of its working life. The vehicle is crucial to the charity's operational role. It houses the search communication equipment and the computers used by the Search Manager to plan search areas and print the teams' search maps. Should a missing person require immediate treatment or evacuation the First Responders' medical equipment and stretchers are carried in the vehicle. To enable safe searching of roads, river or lake banks the team's appropriate safety protection equipment is also carried in the ICV.
With no official funding to support us we are reliant on the generosity of the general public. Are you able to donate to this worthwhile cause? All donations go directly to the project. Help us to help others.