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Bridlington RNLI fly the flag for the 2024 Open Week

Lifeboats News Release

Bridlington volunteer lifeboat crew and fundraisers are ready to welcome the public to the 2024 Lifeboat Week!

Both Bridlington RNLI Lifeboats on display.

RNLI/Mike Milner

Both Bridlington RNLI Lifeboats on display.

For many years, during the last week of July, Bridlington Lifeboat has celebrated their open day (formerly known as flag day) and in what is the RNLI 200th anniversary, we will once again be holding events on the run up to Open Day on Saturday 27 July 2024, down at Bridlington RNLI Lifeboat Station.

Events for 2024 will start on Saturday 20 July 2024 and run until Saturday 27 July 2024. Events on the 20 July will include a music event hosted by Bridlington Gold Coast radio on the lifeboats turning circle, artists will include The Brid Beat Singers, ‘Hooked on Harmony Choir’, and the ‘Jolly Rogers’ ukulele group will be entertaining the crowds, as well as the Bridge Shanty Crew.

We also have a license for a street collection in the town, that will go on into the evenings around the Pubs in Bridlington. The events for Saturday 20 July 2024 start at 10am until 4pm at the lifeboat station, followed by the street collection around the local public houses on the evening, starting at 6pm until 10pm, so please join in and support your local crew and help to save lives at sea.

Finally, on Saturday 27 July 2024 the station will hold its annual Open Day which will again comprise of the usual fun activities, such as a frisbee challenge, an octopus surprise, hook a lifeboat, soak the crew and so much more, like the perennial favourite, welly-wanging. There will also be a raffle, refreshments, Lifeguards, Coastguards, and other water safety assets will also be in attendance.

The event this year will be sponsored by Richardson’s Ford of Bridlington, and Bridlington Gold radio will be hosting the event with a live broadcast. Bridlington Mayor, Councillor Rick Arrand, will open the event at 11am.

Bob Taylor, Lifeboat Water Safety Officer, RNLI Bridlington said ‘usually we pack as much as we can into one day, but this year we’re extending it over the week, and our street collection will be a week earlier, this way we won’t have too many plates to spin on the open day’.

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Photographs credited to Bridlington RNLI-Mike Milner.

RNLI Media contacts

For more information, please contact Bob Taylor, RNLI Volunteer Lifeboat Press Officer: [email protected] or call 07751-054052.

Stormy Stan will again be present.

RNLI/Mike Milner

Stormy Stan will again be present.
The ever popular 'Soak the Crew'

RNLI/Mike Milner

The ever popular 'Soak the Crew'
Try your hand at throwing out a line

RNLI/Mike Milner

Try your hand at throwing out a line
Even the dogs enjoy RNLI Open Day

RNLI/Mike Milner

Even the dogs enjoy RNLI Open Day
Volunteer Crew at last years event.

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Volunteer Crew at last years event.

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The RNLI charity saves lives at sea. Its volunteers provide a 24-hour search and rescue service around the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland coasts. The RNLI operates 238 lifeboat stations in the UK and Ireland and more than 240 lifeguard units on beaches around the UK and Channel Islands. The RNLI is independent of Coastguard and government and depends on voluntary donations and legacies to maintain its rescue service. Since the RNLI was founded in 1824, its lifeboat crews and lifeguards have saved over 146,000 lives.

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