{"id":251,"date":"2014-02-13T22:54:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T22:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rapidinternational.org.uk\/?page_id=251"},"modified":"2016-10-04T14:59:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T14:59:49","slug":"organisation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rapidinternational.org.uk\/?page_id=251","title":{"rendered":"Organisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"metaslider-id-157\" style=\"width: 100%; margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-27-14 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-157 ml-slider nav-hidden\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_157\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_157\" class=\"flexslider\">\n            <ul aria-live=\"polite\" class=\"slides\">\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-186 ms-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.rapidinternational.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/CIMG3101-800x300.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"800\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-157 slide-186\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Training of Peruvian teams <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; 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Graham is married and lives in Devon <\/span>and is a retired paramedic now working for on call doctors. Graham is lifetime St John member and is currently an Area Staff Officer in Devon, Graham was entered into the Order of St John as a &#8220;serving brother&#8221; and in the 2005 New Years Honours Graham was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to International search and rescue. Graham has received numerous accolades from governments and ambassadors for his achievements over the years in humanitarian work<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3001b5;\">John Holland OBE &#8211;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #3001b5;\"><span style=\"color: #010007;\"> has been involved in disaster response and humanitarian work for\u00a0 30 years, John was the co-founder of RAPID-UK and responsible for all operational deployments and has developed and implemented many projects around the world at government and community levels. Having served with the Parachute Regiment John used that same ethos, dedication and professionalism to set up and train a response team that has achieved international recognition. John is divorced lives near Gloucester and has two grown up sons and is currently a Fire Officer with the Defence Fire &amp; Rescue Service. John has received numerous accolades including the Fire Service Merit of Honour of Peru, the Fire Service Distinguished Service\u00a0 Medal for Colombia and in 2006 was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) the first ever bestowed for services to search and rescue.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><strong>Project and Response Advisory Group:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><strong>Paul Blewitt<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><strong> &#8211;<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Former Fire Service Officer with over 20 years experience in Search &amp; Rescue and humanitarian work with over 30\u00a0\u00a0 deployments &amp; support to many others.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><strong>John Miller<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><strong> &#8211;<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 10px;\"> Involved in construction John has over 26 years experience is Search &amp; Rescue and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">humanitarian work with over 35 deployments &amp; support to many others.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><strong>Anthony Thomas<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; <span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Former Royal Engineers, part of the DfID response team, 14 years experience is search &amp; rescue around the world<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><strong>Gillian Dacey<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; <span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Paramedic, former HART instructor, public health and consultant with 14 years experience in search and rescue around the world<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><strong>Clare Langshaw<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; <span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Local authority <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Paramedic, HART USAR Instructor and officer with the HART<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Resilience team, 15 years overseas experience in response &amp; projects.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><strong>Andy Bambridge<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; <span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Former Royal Engineer<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">with vast experience<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">working in hostile environments, NHS paramedic with 1<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">8<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\"> years experience with over a dozen deployments<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"> <strong>Barry Sessions<\/strong><\/span> &#8211;<span style=\"font-size: 10px;\"> Former military logistics, firefighter, Civil Defence with over 22 years experience in search and rescue with 18 deployments with support to many others.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"> <strong>Paul Minshall &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Masters in Disaster Management, experience on several major disasters, worked around the world for various NGO&#8217;s including work for Crown Agents &amp; FOCUS.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">RAPID-International hold a database of subject matter experts in various skill sets including; Water Rescue, Line Rescue, Urban Search &amp; Rescue, Emergency Planning, Medical, Fire Response &amp; Fire Safety, Project Planning, Logistics and Training Delivery.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><strong>Fundraising Coordination:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Mrs C Mcphee &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\"> has carried out fundraising for more than 25 years and raised large amounts of money for humanitarian work.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Dave Gargett &#8211; <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Former military Royal Engineer, former police office with several years experience with RAPID<\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><strong>Public Relations:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Vacant<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Treasurer:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Annett Osborne<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mydonate.bt.com\/donation\/donate.html?charity=rapid-international\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mydonate.bt.com\/images\/promotional\/buttons\/charities\/160x125\/black\/button-1.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Please support the vital work of RAPID International &#8211; Thank you<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; President:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 HRH The Duke of Gloucester RAPID-International and RAPID-UK are proud to have His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester as their President who over the years has given committed support to the aims of the organisation. https:\/\/www.royal.uk\/the-duke-of-gloucester Patrons: The Rt Hon The Viscount Brookeborough DL Lord Rogan Terry Waite CBE Professor Ian Davis &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rapidinternational.org.uk\/?page_id=251\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rapidinternational.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rapidinternational.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rapidinternational.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rapidinternational.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rapidinternational.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.rapidinternational.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/www.rapidinternational.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/251\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rapidinternational.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}