Mobile phones: so often used to call for help from the search and rescue services. Well now, you can use your mobile to help them.

Edale Mountain Rescue Team is appealing for your old cast-off phone, complete with battery and charger, please, to raise cash for the volunteers who provide cover in the Hope Valley of the Peak District.

So if Santa brings you a brand new all-singing, all-annoying phone for Christmas, consider donating your old one to the team.

Here’s what team member Simon Tredinnick says: “One of the companies we use to recycle mobile telephones is having a competition to see who can recycle the most mobile telephones on 18 January.

“As there are prizes which we can use to raise funds for the team we are looking at submitting as many phones as we can for this date.”

Contact the Edale rescue team via their website if you can help.