Mountain Rescue Committee of Scotland

Mountain Rescue Committee of Scotland (MRCofS), now known as Scottish Mountain Rescue^[1] is the body which represents and coordinates mountain rescue teams in Scotland. It has 27 affiliated mountain rescue teams.

Scottish Mountain Rescue consists of 21 volunteer mountain rescue teams, 2 search and rescue dog associations (SARDA) with over 1000 volunteers, plus an additional 3 police teams, 1 RAF team and Scottish Cave Rescue.^[2]

The Mountain Rescue Committee of Scotland (MRCofS) was formed in 1965.^[2] It is a registered charity (number SC015257).

In 2011 it received annual funding grant of £312,000 from the Scottish Government.^[3] This is distributed between the teams, with the largest grant, £24,000 going to the Lochaber MRT.^[4]

Increasingly, the organisation has seen demands for "non-mountain" rescue operations in response to events such as flooding, and searching for missing people. However, a reported split in the organisation in 2016 prompted by this was denied.^[5] Later that same year the Cairngorm, Glen Coe, Lochaber and Tayside teams left the organisation to form Independent Scottish Mountain Rescue (iSMR).

Teams

Volunteer Mountain Rescue teams

• Aberdeen MRT
• Arran MRT
• Arrochar MRT
• Assynt MRT
• Borders SAR Unit
• Braemar MRT
• Dundonnell MRT
• Galloway MRT
• Glenelg MRT
• Glenmore Lodge MRT
• Killin MRT
• Kintail MRT
• Lomond MRT
• Moffat MRT
• Hebrides MRT
• Oban MRT
• Ochils MRT
• Skye MRT
• Torridon MRT
• Tweed Valley MRT

Police teams

• Police (Grampian) MRT
• Police (Strathclyde) MRT
• Police (Tayside) MRT

RAF team

• RAF Lossiemouth MRT

Search and rescue dog associations

• SARDA (Scotland)
• SARDA (Southern Scotland)

Drone Search and Rescue

• Search and Rescue Aerial Association - Scotland (SARAA-Scotland)^[6]

Cave rescue teams

• Scottish Cave Rescue

See also

• Ben Nevis
• Buachaille Etive Mòr
• Mountains and hills of Scotland

• Mountains portal