Disaster Arborist Team

[morten]

Thanks to Mark and Ian of Makita UK who came down yesterday and delivered the chain saws they have donated to DART. Our deployment teams are kitted out with Makita UK chainsaws, Samurai pruning saws from Buxtons Limited, Petzl harnesses and safety helmets from Lyon Work And Rescue and thanks to Glendale UK for their continued support. We have other kit sponsors in the pipeline which we'll announce shortly.

We now have the kit and the volunteers, we just need money now so that we can be truly ready to deploy. Please donate to DART via the PayPal button on our home page DART International UK any donations no matter how small would be greatly appreciated.

 

Have you considered crowd funding? You could set up your project on kickstarter.com or similar. I wouldn't be surprised if you could get lots of pledges for funding that way.

[jonmackeen]

Hi Morten, thanks yes we have considered crowd funding and still looking into which one is best for us, as most of them apply a percentage charge to the money raised. We will be running some training courses in the near future including safety and security, emergency tree operations, survival, etc and will be selling some donated kit on our charity eBay account soon.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/egw/ebay-for-charity/charity-profile/DART-International-UK/84891

Cheers

Edited October 30, 2014 by jonmackeen
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