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Free Wills Month UK

Write or update your simple Will for free with the RNLI and help save lives
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We are the RNLI

The charity that saves lives at sea

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A gift in your Will is our protection at sea

6 in 10 lifeboat launches are only possible thanks to gifts in Wills. Leave a lifesaving gift and help save lives at sea
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join a force for good

Become a member of the RNLI and you'll be joining a lifesaving family, working together to save every one we can.
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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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RNLI 200: A story of kindness

With your support, this story of kindness can continue. Will you help us mark 200 years of lifesaving?
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Shop and save lives at sea

Everything you buy from the RNLI shop helps support lifeboat crews and lifeguards in their mission to save every one they can
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Explore the RNLI's lifesaving history

For over 200 years, the RNLI has been saving lives at sea. Find out more about our lifesaving history.
An RNLI Atlantic 85 B class lifeboat with four crew members onboard cruises through rough seas

Our lifeboat fleet

Find out more about the lifesaving craft RNLI lifeboat crews use to power to the rescue

Rescue stories your support made possible

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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Two crew members from Fowey RNLI in their inshore lifeboat
Stuck on the rocks
What would you do if you saw your 13-year old daughter pulled out to sea on an inflatable paddleboard? 
What would you do?

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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Latest lifeboat launches

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D class inshore lifeboat launches from a tractor into heavy surf

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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