Supporters
2014 Appeal
In 2014, The Lifeboat Fund was delighted to respond to a pressing need. The RNLI asked us to help train its lifeboat crew members for their perilous work. The object is to equip these brave people to rescue folk in distress and save lives, quickly and professionally – and then to come home safely to their loved ones.
The Fund has been asked to donate £280,800 – sufficient to train one crew volunteer at every single UK lifeboat station. The training is challenging and covers a range of disciplines – navigation in all weathers, boat repair while on a ‘shout’, dealing with a capsize, and many first aid procedures, including resuscitating someone in real danger.
Read here, our Factsheets about the 2014 Appeal and how you can help. The posters and other materials below can be downloaded to support your fundraising.
Previous Appeals
2013
The 2013 Lifeboat Fund Appeal focused its support on crew safety and the target for that year was £185,000.
The RNLI asked The Fund to raise sufficient donations to cover the cost of a full kit for one crew member at every lifeboat station in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This meant our goal for each lifeboat crew kit we provided was £770.
Although it sounded like a challenge, it was a challenge The Lifeboat Fund was keen to accept - and the charity delivered!
2012
In 2012, nearly £120,000 was raised across the UK by The Lifeboat Fund to help support the RNLI and three priorities it asked us to support.
The focus of fundraising in Scotland was to raise money to kit out crew members in the latest safety lifejackets.
A second priority was to fundraise for lifeguard training of one person at every UK RNLI-lifeguarded beach.
We also paid maintenance costs at lifeboat stations where The Fund's boats were in service - to keep them in top condition.
2011
The Lifeboat Fund was extremely grateful to all who responded to the popular theme of its 2011 UK Appeal.
The total raised by The Fund that year - to help train and kit out lifeboat crews around the UK was £122,000.
Training and crew kit are vital and it cost more than £1,200. In 2011 to train each member of the crew. Equipping these volunteers for their protection cost over £1,100 for an inshore kit and about £1,130 for an all-weather kit.
RNLI
The Lifeboat Fund began in 1866 because a group of public servants was inspired to give tangible help to the charity that saves lives at sea, by buying a lifeboat for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).
Still to this day, no-one would contest the case for supporting such an excellent cause. The majority of RNLI crew are volunteers and put their own safety at risk day in day out to help those who need it.
The RNLI – like The Lifeboat Fund – is still going strong and, since 1824, its lifeboat crews and lifeguards have saved over 140,000 lives. Many rescues take place at night and in atrocious conditions. The courageous crew volunteers deserve every support, and The Lifeboat Fund has made that cause its mission.
Read here, news about our sole beneficiary, its latest rescue statistics - which are truly impressive - and link up to its website, to learn more about the charity we love to support.
Useful links:
Lifeboats and Lifeboat stations
Leaving a Gift in Your Will
Have you ever considered a legacy?
Did you know, six out of ten lifeboat launches are only made possible with the help of a legacy gift?
How a legacy can help Lifeboat Crews long into the future
Many people choose to remember the charities they have supported during their lifetime with a gift in their Will and it can also reduce the tax burden on their estate. If you are thinking of making up or updating your Will, would you consider a legacy gift to The Fund? A simple codicil can be added to any existing Will making a bequest to The Lifeboat Fund.
Please contact the Honorary Secretary for more information.
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The Lifeboat Fund website uses cookies to measure use of the website including number of visitors, how frequently pages are viewed, and the city and country of origin of users. This helps to determine what is popular and can influence future content and development. For this purpose we use web analytics to measure and analyse usage of the website. The information collected by The Lifeboat Fund will include IP Address, pages visited, browser type and operating system. The data will not be used to identify any user personally.
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Other ways to donate
By depositing the money into your nearest HSBC bank
Please use the bank details below:
HSBC Branch: 125 Church Road, Hove BN3 2AN
Account name: The Lifeboat Fund
Account number: 10232491
Sort code: 40-25-06
Cheques or cash can be paid over in this way. In order to identify your department please add a dept. reference on the paying in slip(e.g. HO - Angela Wilson) and email lifeboatfund@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk with details of your deposit. Please keep any receipts in case we need to contact HSBC about the donation.
By credit or debit card
BT MyDonate is the preferred method as this is a free donations service. It can also be used for setting up sponsorship pages. Gift Aid is added where appropriate. While all our fundraising goes to the RNLI, for all on-line giving, your credit card transaction should be made through The Fund’s website and not through the RNLI’s, since the RNLI will not be able to trace those funds to identify the total contributed by our charity – and we like to know how much our supporters have donated each year!
You can also donate using Virgin Money Giving and JustGiving, however both these services charge a commission on each donation made.
This link takes you to our BT MyDonate page
This link takes you to our Virgin Money Giving page
This link takes you to our JustGiving page
By cheque
Please send cheques (in the name of The Lifeboat Fund) to
Angela Wilson
Hon. Treasurer, The Lifeboat Fund
Financial Management Unit
Home Office
4th Floor Seacole NE
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF.
Please enclose your name, employing organisation and contact number, and notify Angela if you require a receipt.
Gift Aid on collections
If you do a collection on behalf of the Lifeboat Fund we can collect the gift aid in two ways
- Use the form provided
- Send an email to lifeboatfund@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk giving details of when and where the collection took place, who was donating (for e.g. workplace etc), the amount collected and when you paid it into the bank. Gift Aid will be collected on this as part of a central Gift Aid claim.