From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 4x4 Response
4x4 Response
External links
• 4x4 Response National Website
• Charity Commission register entry
• BBC Radio4 ’You and Yours" Jan 10
• BBC News Feb 09
4x4 Response is the UK based national organisation using
• BBC Article on Hertfordshire 4x4 Response team
4x4 vehicles to offer support in adverse conditions[1],
• Times Newspaper article on SE 4x4 Response team
working with Voluntary Organisations and Emergency
Services.
Regional Group Websites
History England
• Avon, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire (Wessex)
With a history of the Emergency Services calling on 4x4
• Bedfordshire & Cambridgeshire
owners in times of emergency, there is a history of
• Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
groups of volunteers with 4x4s in the UK for a number of
• Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Mersyside, Lancashire
years.
(North West)
In 1999 4x4 Response was established as a response
• Derbyshire (Peak)
group in Norfolk, and in 2005 national links were devel-
• Devon & Cornwall
oped into a more formal Association, resulting in 2006
• Durham, Nothumberland (North East)
the formation of the 4x4 Response Network. In the Au-
• Gloucestershire & Worcestershire
tumn of 2008, 4x4 Response became a registered charity
• Hampshire & Berkshire
(Charity number: 1126138), recognised by the Depart-
• Herefordshire
ment for Communities and Local Government.[2]
• Hertfordshire
• Isle of Wight (Vectis)
Operations • Kent
Although a national level umbrella organisation exists, • Norfolk & Suffolk
the charity is engaged through contact with one of its lo- • Northamptonshire
cal groups. Each local group has a formalised Memoran- • Nottinghamshire
dum of Understanding with Category One and Category • Shropshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire (West
Two responders, as defined by the Civil Contingencies Midlands)
Act 2004.[3] Such organisations include: • Surrey
• Local Authority Emergency Planning Office • Sussex
• The Police • West Yorkshire
• The Ambulance Service • Yorkshire & Lincolnshire
• St. John Ambulance Scotland
• Red Cross
• Aberdeenshire, Grampian Moray (COTAG)
• Doctors’ Associations.
Established 2005
Most 4x4 Response groups are members of their Local Re-
• Angus, Fife, Perth & Kinross (Tayside)
silience Forum (LRF) voluntary agency groups enabling
• Highlands
inclusion in local resilience plans.
• Lothian, Stirling
• Scottish Borders
References
Wales
[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/
• Wales
8454195.stm
[2] http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/
communities/pdf/14324161.pdf
[3] http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2004/
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