Sustainability

Our mission is to Save Every One.

The RNLI is committed to integrating Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) principles into the development and delivery of a more sustainable, resilient, and future-fit lifesaving service.

We are committed to spending your money wisely, and how we do things is just as important as what we do. We understand that the three pillars of sustainability include our environmental, social and economic impacts and that if there is an impact on one pillar, it is likely there will be knock-on impacts to the other pillars.

That’s why we’re taking action across all three pillars, aiming to reduce the things that we’re doing that may or do have negative impacts, and doing more of the things that do or can have positive impacts.

This is our watch

Our purpose is to save lives at sea. Our vision is to save every one. All the while, we strive to stay true to our values: courageous, dependable, selfless and trustworthy.

Working together towards shared goals, in common purpose, is what makes any crew great. It’s up to us on our watch to ensure that we secure the RNLI for the next generation. To help everyone play their part, we have set three long-term goals and a roadmap of the key activities that will move us toward them, delivered through a series of 5-Year Plans to 2040.

The first of these plans, One Crew, One Plan: RNLI 2026-30, was published in September 2025 and explains why we need to evolve, what we need to do, and how we will make it happen – together as One Crew.