RNLI Fundraising news

Award winning RNLI volunteers receive keys to Moelfre Seawatch Centre

Eleri Davies

Moelfre RNLI volunteers were presented this morning (Friday) with the keys to the village’s Seawatch Centre by Anglesey County Council representatives. Today the RNLI officially takes over the building and volunteers will now be busy preparing the building to officially start welcoming guests next week...

RNLI Queensferry welcome £1,500 donation thanks to Forth Bridge monitors

Hamish Campbell

Local residents who have volunteered to have vital environmental monitoring stations to measure and record dust, noise and vibration throughout the five year construction period of the new Forth crossing were asked by the Forth Crossing Bridge contractors to nominate a worthy cause to receive a donation, and they chose RNLI Queensferry.
Local residents Douglas Ross from Linn Mill, Mr and Mrs Mike Baynham, and Adam Cruttenden, the manager for Port Edgar Marina and Sailing School, nominated the RNLI Queensferry lifeboat station...

Lifeboat supporters go flat out for flippin' fantastic fundraisier

Danielle Rush

RNLI fundraisers in Tenby are calling on locals to support their annual pancake race next Tuesday (14 February). Last year, participants grabbed their frying pans and headed to Tudor Square for the 60 metre dash to the finishing line...

SOS day at Tenby's branch of Yorkshire Building Society

Bob James

Fundraising has started at the Tenby branch of Yorkshire Building Society.
The staff sold cakes on SOS Day, the RNLI's biggest day of fundraising, as a start to their nationwide campaign to raise funds for the RNLI which will continue throughout 2012...

SOS day event raises £740 for Cromer RNLI Lifeboats

Paul Cox

Soup or Scones was the theme of this year's SOS day event which was held at the Community Centre in Cromer's Garden Street on Saturday 28th January.
Members of the Cromer Ladies Lifeboat Guild cooked up a wide range of tantalising soups, scones and cakes, and staged a raffle and penny race to raise funds for the charity that saves lives at sea...

Peel RNLI Lifeboat Crew Clean Up

Malcolm Kelly

RNLI supporter has a close shave to help Dunbar volunteers save lives

David Johnston

Dunbar lifeboat fundraiser Marie Headley had a close shave to help the town’s volunteer lifeboat crew. Big-hearted Marie had her head shaved in a fundraising event that raised £1,000 for lifeboat funds...

Lytham Promenade Orchestra push the boat out to help local lifeboats

Pete Whalley

The chance for Youth Music’s Lytham Promenade Orchestra to Show Our Support for the RNLI SOS day – the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s biggest fundraising day – on Friday 27 January 2012 was another great success.
Members of the Lytham Promenade Orchestra, under the direction of their founder Martin Edward Gunson, again played a concert of popular and light classical music as their part of the SOS day national appeal...

Success! Our Stations shout for RNLI SOS Day 2012 in the South West

Amy Caldwell

RNLI lifeboat stations across the south west are celebrating in the success of the charity’s SOS Day on Friday 27 January, as crew, lifeguards and supporters raised vital funds towards the RNLI’s lifejacket campaign, which aims to fund the provision of new, state of the art lifejackets at all 35 lifeboat stations in the region.
It was an early start for the five volunteer lifeboat crew from Penlee in Cornwall, as they set off from Plymouth RNLI lifeboat station to tackle the 125 miles back to their lifeboat station in Newlyn...

Helensburgh RNLI Lifeboat fundraising Committee raises £3360 from curry supper

Keith Shipman

Helensburgh RNLI Fundraising team held their annual Curry Supper at the Royal Northern and Clyde Yacht Club on Friday 3rd February and raised £3360 for the charity.
Commodore of the RNCYC Jock Fleming and his wife Margaret were guests...