Trusts and Foundations
Give through your Trust
You can help save lives at sea by making a donation through your charitable trust. As well as providing vital support for our running costs – an average of £339,000 a day – significant donations can be used to support a particular area of our work.
For example, your trust could help us redevelop our lifeboat stations so that we can give our volunteer crew the modern facilities they need, such as new crew training rooms. Perhaps you would like to help us purchase equipment for a particular lifeboat station? Or you may wish to help us expand our lifeguard service, which helps prevent accidents on and around beaches, last year saving 62 lives.
Thank you
We would like to thank all the trusts and foundations that give valuable support to the RNLI. If your trust has given, and you would like to be featured on this website, please contact us using the details below.
Case study: The Belsize Charitable Trust No 1
The Belsize Charitable Trust No 1 has been loyally supporting the work of the RNLI for many years now, concentrating on our lifeboat crews in the Southwest of England where the Trust is based. The Trust’s most recent project was funding the mechanic’s workshop inside the new lifeboat station at Padstow at a cost of £10,000.
The workshop is a vital part of the station and used on a daily basis to maintain the lifeboat and other lifesaving equipment. The trustees have been to visit the station at Padstow, where they have not only been able to see the result of their donation, but also meet the volunteer crew – the people that directly benefit from their generosity.
Case study: The Freemasons' Grand Charity
The Freemasons’ Grand Charity was established in 1981, and one of its first ever emergency grants for disaster relief was to the Penlee disaster fund, following the loss of the Penlee lifeboat and crew shortly before Christmas 1981. In July 2008, the Grand Charity agreed to support crew training at the Lifeboat College in Poole by funding a week-long Introductory D class course for each of the next three years, at a total cost of £72,000 or £24,000 per annum.
