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The RNLI’s lifesaving team at Broughty Ferry requires more volunteers to fill roles as part of their fundraising group.
The lifeboat station is regularly Scotland’s busiest station and, in 2025, it launched more than 100 times on emergencies and saved several lives.
Broughty Ferry Fundraising Group are made up of a number of volunteers that organise events and raise the funds needed to power their local lifesaving, but they need your help.
Spencer Harris, the RNLI’s Community Manager for the area, said: ‘Volunteers have been the powerhouse behind the RNLI’s history of saving lives at sea.
‘The charity was formed more than 200 years ago and has saved more than 146,000 lives which is an incredible achievement.
‘We are a volunteer-led charity with about 95% volunteers and they generously and selflessly give up their time to ensure we can save strangers in trouble at sea every minute of every day.
‘But today we are now faced with our own challenge – we need to recruit more volunteers to help us raise the vital funds needed.
‘Most people think of the RNLI as our loyal volunteer crews manning lifeboats in all weathers – and yet behind those crews and boats are an army of volunteers dedicated to ensuring we can fulfil our core mission of saving people along the coast and further out to sea.’
Broughty Ferry RNLI lifeboat station has an all-weather and an inshore lifeboat and now the RNLI is holding a recruitment event on 21 February from 10am to 3pm at the lifeboat station in Fisher Street. It needs fundraisers, a treasurer, secretary and donation box collectors.
Mr Harris said: ‘We would be delighted to see people of all ages and from all backgrounds. If you have an interest in helping us organise fundraising events in and around their community then please come along to find out how you can get involved.’
‘Volunteer for the RNLI – and you will be continuing a tradition that was started in 1824 and remains as relevant now as when it first launched.’
For more information, please contact Group Co-Lead Christina Allan via email at [email protected]
Picture caption
Broughty Ferry Trent class all-weather lifeboat Elizabeth of Glamis 14-31 at sea during a training exercise. Picture by Stephen Duncombe
RNLI media contacts
Richard Smith, RNLI Regional Communications Manager for Scotland, 07826 900639, [email protected]
Martin Macnamara, RNLI Regional Communications Lead for Scotland, 07920 365929, [email protected]
The RNLI is the charity that 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 146,700 lives.
