To ensure all team members remain operationally effective, we attend training organised on a quarterly training diary, averaging two exercises per month plus an indoor training session.  On occasion this is supplemented with training organised by the Police Force or Mountain Rescue.  Additionally all team members are required to hold a valid certificate of First Aid, with many of the team also qualified as specialist Mountain Rescue Casualty Carers.

All members of the team are unpaid volunteers and come from all walks of life.  We currently have team members who are teachers, police officers, managing directors, IT contractors, builders and paramedics (to name but a few).  This range of professions provides a vast array of skills which are regularly called upon - whether it be during a call-out, or behind-the-scenes maintaining and supporting the team, its members and equipment.

To make best use of these skills, the team elect operational team members into various positions of responsibility.  These include officers, who are specialists in a particular operational area and may also act as consultant and advisor to the team.  Such positions include the Training Officer, Equipment Officer, Communications Officer and Medical Officer.

In addition to assisting the Police as an 'Operational Resource', the team often provides assistance with local events. 

The team regularly attends charitable events on Exmoor and the surrounding areas, such as the 'Exmoor Challenge' in which approximately 400 children walk 16 miles across the moor, and the 'Exmoor Perambulation', a 31-mile walk around the boundary of the ancient Royal Exmoor Forest.  The team also provides a community service at many smaller events as and when requested and are often out fundraising at local shows and community meetings.