NEWS AND EVENTS
RRT helps Royal Flying Doctor Service stay in the air in remote WA
As beautiful as it is, one of the harsh realities of living in the remote corners of Western Australia is the huge distances which patients must travel in order to get medical treatment. The people of Western Australia rightly welcomed the Royal Flying Doctor...
Australian Parliament praises efforts of Rapid Relief Team volunteers
The Rapid Relief Team has been praised in Australia’s Federal Parliament for its efforts to support frontline emergency services workers. In front of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the Member for Hughes, Jenny Ware, waxed lyrical about her experience of RRT services...
New Zealand Farmers Community Connect events rebuild fences for farmers
Cyclone Gabrielle left a trail of destruction in its wake, including thousands of kilometres of broken fencing in New Zealand. The Rapid Relief Team (RRT) is the charitable arm of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, and it recently stepped up to help hundreds of...
BURGERS ON THE MENU FOR HUNGRY STAFF AT THE ALFRED
The seemingly endless hours medical staff spend toiling on the frontline often go by without receiving the appreciation they deserve. So, when the Rapid Relief Team (RRT) charity turned up at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne with 2,000 signature burgers and bottles of...
RRT HELPS BRING WATER TO FIRE FRONTLINE IN NSW
The Rapid Relief Team (RRT) has helped bushfire efforts in NSW by transporting hundreds of thousands of litres of water to a fire scene where local water access was poor. RRT used its bulk water carrier to move 576,000 litres of water from Lithgow, Ben Bellen and Lake...
Rapid Relief Team connects flood-hit farmers with community of Condobolin
As the convoy of a dozen B-doubles laden with hay rolled into the New South Wales central west township of Condobolin, 450km west of Sydney, a sense of renewed hope welled up in the community as locals cheered and clapped. After record floods in November 2022, locals...
RRT HELPS FLOOD HIT FARMERS GET BACK ON FEET
More than 90 farmers received vital support at a Farmers Community Connect event in Rochester, Victoria, in December organised by the Rapid Relief Team (RRT) charity. RRT provided 92 farmers from Rochester and surrounding areas with free hay bales to help them recover...
RRT FUELS UP POLLIES TO PEDAL 1,000KM CHARITY RIDE THROUGH NSW
They are the behind-the-scenes volunteers who make sure the riders in the seven-day 1,000km Pollie Pedal for charity get the fuel they need each morning at dawn before they mount their bikes and hit the road again to grind out another gruelling 150km or so over the...
RRT FIREFIGHTING PUMP SYSTEM COMES TO RESCUE IN FLOODS
Home-owners stranded by floods in Sackville, northwest of Sydney, got some timely help when the Rapid Relief Team deployed a water pumping system usually enlisted to help fight bushfires to help them get back to their properties. The Rapid Relief Team’s Rapid Water...
QUEEN DECREES A GREENER CONDOBOLIN – GRANT TO PLANT MORE TREES AT ONESCHOOL GLOBAL
More trees will be planted in Condobolin in celebration of The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. OneSchool Global Condobolin Campus will be greener and shadier thanks to a $4,500 Federal Government grant to plant trees in honour of the legacy of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth...