Welcome to the website of Trossachs Search and Rescue

TSART works in partnership with Strathclyde Fire and Rescue, providing 24/7 search dog cover for the 2.3 million people of Strathclyde.

Trossachs Search and Rescue Team provides specialised search dogs and handlers for use at Urban SAR and lowland SAR incidents.

Based at MOD Forthside, Stirling and close to the motorway network we are well placed to immediately respond to incidents Scotland either by road or by air deployment from the base's helicopter landing site.

We can call on handlers from Thurso in Caithness down to Stirling and from the Falkirk area across into Fife.

We are part of the National Urban Search and Rescue Dog Group (NUSARDG) so the emergency services can be assured that the service provided is of an extremely high standard.
Trossachs Search and Rescue is a recognised Scottish Charity which
- provides a voluntary search and rescue service for people lost or injured
- provides a rescue service for injured animals
- promotes safety in the outdoors
- provides emergency life support training to groups within the local communities through our TSART Heartstart Scheme.

Trossachs SAR is a Scottish Charity, No. SC028266

TSART IS NOT A MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM

Operational Base:
Materials Park, MOD Forthside, Meadowforth Road,Stirling

Team e-mail : trossachs.sar@btinternet.com
or post an enquiry by highlighting the button to the left marked 'ENQUIRY'.

The Team Chairman is
Stuart Ballantyne, 11 Tryst Park,
The Inches, Larbert, Stirlingshire
FK5 4FN. Tel 07796 240 023


The Secretary is Gordon Gregory,
1 Holmpark, Bishopton PA7 5JQ.
Tel 07833 734 579.


Donations can be sent to the team's Treasurer: Joanne Reid MA LLB,
11 Tryst Park, The Inches, Larbert, Stirlingshire FK5 4FN.

If you have a query re call-outs / events coverage then contact Stuart Ballantyne .
Formed in 1998, our team comprises 24 people (17 men & 7 women) and 5 search dogs.

Our volunteers are drawn from all walks of life - from the Police, Fire and Ambulance services, offshore medic, nurse, military personnel, country park warden, joiners, painter, dog warden, surveyor, teacher, student and commercial pilot -and most of these have former military/ emergency services experience.

We are delighted to be heavily supported by WAGG Foods who supply all the qualified dogs with WAGG Time each month. WAGG also support the personnel by way of providing fleece jackets and polo shirts. (www.waggfoods.co.uk)

We are also supported in different ways - be it the provision of a vehicle, finance or training by three of Scotland's Fire and Rescue Services - Strathclyde, Central Scotland and Fife.

Arnold Clark Mazda Stirling sponsor the team by providing a Mazda BT50 Double Cab Pick up which acts as a secondary dog vehicle.
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