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Driven to save lives together: our 200th partners

Photo: RNLI/Chris Smith

The RNLI got a crucial boost in funds and awareness in 2024 thanks to the supportive organisations and companies that helped to make it an extra-special year.

Explore our partnerships

  • RNLI 200 shop range
    RNLI Shop 
    Special keepsakes and gifts

    With the talent and expertise of our partners, we created some very special 200th anniversary souvenirs and gifts for our online RNLI Shop and our 170+ shops around the UK and Ireland.

    In the RNLI 200 Limited range, only 200 pieces of each item were made. The range includes luxurious bags, accessories and homeware handcrafted by Will Bees Bespoke and featuring Emma Mawston’s exclusive design; stunning Alex Monroe jewellery and Bremont watches; a unique Heritage Collection made from an RNLI flagpole; a high-performance Typhoon Infinity 200 Drysuit; and bespoke bottles of Salcombe Gin and Rum.

    Shop the RNLI 200 range
  • The Royal Mint
    Royal Mint Commemorative Coin
    A collectable worth every penny

    The Royal Mint created a commemorative RNLI 50p coin featuring a brand-new design by experienced coinage artist John Bergdahl. The reverse displays the RNLI flag surrounded by an orange lifering bearing the words ‘200 years 1824–2024’.

    Buy your coin
  • An RNLI volunteer signing the RNLI 200th anniversary scroll on a table in front of RNLI Moelfre Seawatch Centre with other volunteers behind and an RNLI Ford E-Transit van
    Ford
    Going the extra miles in 2024

    As the official sponsor of the Connecting our Communities event, Ford provided an all-electric E-Transit van to safely transport a special scroll and its custodian to RNLI communities throughout the UK, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.

    SEE THE SCROLL'S JOURNEY
  • GJW Direct
    Insuring a good time was had in 2024

    Marine insurers GJW Direct supported our All Hands on Deck events, which invited sailing club communities to join in the birthday celebrations and host their own RNLI 200th fundraiser.

    OUR GJW DIRECT PARTNERSHIP
  • Two people sit at a wooden table, each with a drink and a bottle of Four Seas Salcombe Gin on the table
    Salcombe Gin
    Celebrate the spirit of lifesaving

    Award-winning distillers Salcombe Distilling Co created bespoke gin and spiced rum recipes to toast our 200th anniversary. The special bottles of Four Seas Gin and Island Street Rum are both available from RNLI Shop.

    SHOP THE SALCOMBE GIN COLLECTION
  • Bremont watches for RNLI 200
    Bremont
    A new timepiece for a new century of lifesaving

    Bremont, the luxury and high-performance watchmaker, designed and created not one, but three bespoke and limited-edition timepieces especially for our 200th anniversary. Only 200 of each RNLI watch were made, and they form part of Bremont’s Supermarine collection, which is designed for life below and above the waves.

    BROWSE THE BREMONT WATCH COLLECTION
  • A bottle of Fynoderee Manx Dry Gin, illustrated with an RNLI lifeboat and waves
    Fynoderee
    Raise a glass to our Manx roots

    In celebration of the RNLI’s birthplace, the Isle of Man’s Fynoderee Distillery created a special Coastal Collection featuring two new recipes: Fynoderee Manx Dry Gin - RNLI Edition and Refuge Manx Rum.

    SHOP THE COASTAL COLLECTION
  • People on a boat in Helly Hansen kit
    Helly Hansen
    Wear with pride

    Helly Hansen not only supply the durable kit worn by our lifeboat crews and lifeguards, they created a special RNLI 200 range of clothing especially for our supporters.

    SHOP THE RNLI 200 HELLY HANSEN RANGE
  • Round the Island Race logo with hashtag #RaceForAll
    Round the Island Race
    Official charity partner in 2024

    The RNLI was extremely proud to be the official charity partner for the 2024 Round the Island Race. The money raised will go towards training the volunteer crews at the seven RNLI lifeboat stations that provide safety cover for the annual race around the Isle of Wight - Cowes, Calshot, Bembridge, Mudeford, Lymington, Portsmouth and Yarmouth.

    LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ROUND THE ISLAND RACE
  • Man and woman in dryrobes smiling at an RNLI LIfeguard
    dryrobe®
    Limited 200th anniversary edition

    In May 2024, dryrobe® launched a new Limited Edition RNLI dryrobe® Advance and donated £50 from every sale to our lifesaving charity. Although this special edition is no longer available, other RNLI dryrobes® are available online at RNLI Shop, where 100% of profit goes toward saving lives at sea.

    BROWSE RNLI DRYROBES®
  • Volunteers outside RNLI Ramsey Shop holding the new Isle of Man post Office stamps for RNLI 200 Anniversary
    Isle of Man Post Office
    RNLI 200th anniversary stamps

    In honour of the RNLI’s Manx roots, the Isle of Man Post Office issued a commemorative collection of six stamps featuring RNLI founder Sir William Hillary and all five RNLI lifeboat stations on the Isle of Man - Port St Mary, Peel, Port Erin, Ramsey and Douglas.

    SEE THE ISLE OF MAN STAMP COLLECTION
  • RNLI volunteers, some in crew kit, standing on an all-weather lifeboat holding large pictures of Guernsey Post’s commemorative RNLI 200th anniversary stamps
    Guernsey Post
    RNLI 200th anniversary stamps

    In honour of the RNLI’s lifesaving history in Guernsey, Guernsey Post issued a commemorative collection of six stamps featuring RNLI founder Sir William Hillary, and the lifeboats of St Peter Port and Alderney Lifeboat Stations. The stamp collection is available to buy on its own, or as part of a pan-island set alongside collections by Jersey Post and the Isle of Man Post Office.

    BROWSE THE Guernsey STAMP COLLECTIONS
  • RNLI Jersey crew with Jersey Post members launching new stamps
    Jersey Post
    RNLI 200th anniversary stamps

    In honour of the RNLI’s lifesaving history in Jersey, Jersey Post issued a commemorative collection of six stamps featuring RNLI founder Sir William Hillary, the lifeboats of St Helier and St Catherine Lifeboat Stations, and RNLI lifeguards. The stamp collection is available to buy on its own, or as part of a pan-island set alongside collections by Guernsey Post and the Isle of Man Post Office.

    BROWSE THE Jersey STAMP COLLECTIONS
  • RNLI rose With Courage in a yellow welly on the beach
    Peter Beales
    With Courage: a commemorative rose

    Award-winning rosarian Peter Beales bred a unique rose to mark 200 years of saving lives at sea. The rose was named ‘With Courage’ by RNLI volunteers and supporters in honour of RNLI founder Sir William Hillary who said: ‘With courage, nothing is impossible.’

    Order your rose today