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Become a member of the RNLI

As a member of our lifesaving family, you'll receive a host of exclusive benefits and help brave volunteers save lives at sea
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We are the RNLI

The charity that saves lives at sea

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Christmas Appeal

Even at Christmas, brave RNLI crews are on call 24 hours a day. Will you donate and help them to save every one they can?
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Take on the Reindeer Run Challenge

Run 24 miles in December and raise vital funds to keep RNLI volunteers safe this winter.
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Shop and save lives at sea this Christmas

Treat your loved ones to a fantastic gift from the RNLI shop. Every £1 spent helps to fund our lifesaving work.
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Send the gift of an RNLI membership for just £48/€60 a year

Your loved one will receive an RNLI members' pack with coastal visit handbook, and much more
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Launch a Memory

Add your loved one's name to Exmouth's Shannon class lifeboat and their memory will help save lives at sea
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The perfect Christmas gift for £18

Help little ones discover the exciting world of the RNLI with a Storm Force membership, our very own club for young people under 9.
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RNLI 200: A story of kindness

With your support, this story of kindness can continue. Will you help us mark 200 years of lifesaving?

Rescue stories your support made possible

Rhyl Volunteer Crew Member Kevin Taggart looks at the camera with a neutral expression. He is wearing crew kit and standing on a beach.
Trapped on a shrinking sandbank: 120 people rescued in Rhyl
At Rhyl Beach, 120 people are getting cut off by a rapidly incoming tide. Will the volunteers bring them to safety before it’s too late? 
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Newhaven’s lifeboat powers through the sea on a misty, grey day, with lots of spray around it
In the face of nature’s fury
Driving rain, squally conditions. All in a night’s work for Newhaven lifeboat crew.
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An RNLI inshore D class lifeboat in rough seas with three crew aboard, two lean out to reach for a child in the water on the port side of the lifeboat
Watch the moment a girl’s life is saved
Dun Laoghaire RNLI volunteers rescue a child from rough seas.
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Yarmouth’s Severn class lifeboat passes by The Needles. There is one crew member at the front of the boat on the lower deck, and five crew looking out from the upper deck.
‘It was like looking for a needle in a haystack’
When two paddleboarders go missing, seven lifeboats launch to their rescue. Will the crews find them before darkness falls?
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In an emergency at the coast, call 999 or 112 and ask for the coastguard.

Cullercoats Lifeboat Helm Anna Heslop on the 200 Voices podcast

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Stories of courage, triumph and tragedy from survivors, supporters, and the lifesavers of the RNLI

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True stories of courage

Visit our online magazine to read some of the most thrilling, dramatic and inspiring rescue stories carried out by RNLI lifesavers
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