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Heavy Snow
During the recent heavy snows, as well as our normal response to incidents at Beachy Head, BHCT used its 4x4 vehicles alongside the Coastguard teams from Eastbourne, Bexhill and Hastings as well as RAYNET to assist in the emergency response. During the heaviest of the snow, the team transported patients and staff to and from the Eastbourne District General Hospital, up as far as mid Sussex and to Hastings in the east and as far as Brighton in the west.
 
2009 a record year for BHCT

Happy New Year to you!

2009 was a record year for Beachy Head Chaplaincy Team. June, July and October were the teams first, second and fourth busiest months, respectively, since BHCT began operations in August 2004. The year itself saw an 11% increase in searches and incidents attended by the team and a 30% increase in persons rescued compaired to 2008.

2009 saw BHCT attend 782 incidents / searches for those in distress which resulted in the rescue of 283 persons who were depressed or suicidal. In the vast majority of the other incidents/searches the persons were found not to be at Beachy Head. These figures mean that 2009 was the busiest year for BHCT so far.

The figures for searches and incidents in November and December were 71 and 51, and the persons rescued were 20 and 21.
 
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BHCT is a Christian chaplaincy which also works as a non-technical search and rescue team specialising in Suicide intervention at the notorious suicide spot of Beachy Head. In it's first five years (Aug 04 - July 09) the team was involved in 2834 inicidents/searches for those in distress which resulted in the rescue of 1002 persons. As well as the Frontline Team which operates proactive patrols every week of the year, BHCT also run an On-call Team which responds to emergencies in the Beachy Head area 24 hours a day 365 days a year. The team consists of 15 volunteer Frontline team members, 3 of which also operate the On-call Team. BHCT also has a dedicated Aftercare team of 4 backed up by members of the Frontline Team. Team members come from a wide variety of local Churches.The teams operate closely with the Emergency services of Sussex, often working with Sussex Police and HM Coastguard on many of the incidents at Beachy Head.The team is funded by voluntary contributions alone and is supported by local churches, ministries, businesses and individuals as well as by our Monthly Partners. BHCT is run by the Christian charity More Fire Revival Ministries.