::Welcome To Ryde's Independent Lifeboat::

We are always looking for volunteers who can help with fundraising; one of the most important roles at our lifeboat station.  If we don’t have funds we can’t pay for the fuel to put the boats afloat or purchase operational or crew equipment.  Training would not be able to take place and the bottom line is we would not have a lifeboat station. 

On top of general fundraising we have larger, more specific items that need to be purchased and for these we run campaigns.  With support from the Island community over the years we have managed to buy a new £60,000 lifeboat and have just raised £6000 to purchase a new smaller rescue craft.  We have even been acknowledged for our efforts when we were awarded the Charity Times national award for fundraising.

The MAYDAY campaign

All of our equipment is housed in the Rescue Centre and Headquarters at Appley, Ryde. The building was erected in 1978 when the club was still principally a life guard unit and now having to accommodate all of our S&R equipment it is very over crowded.
It also accommodates the changing facilities for the crews, the workshop to maintain the lifeboats and tractors, a look-out to oversee the beach and foreshore, all land based training and all of our fund raising facilities.
The most congested area is the crew room which also contains our fund raising materials, our office and computer, and all of our land based training aids. The look-out seen in the centre of the Photo is ideal for watching swimmers and bathers but is limited when it comes to looking out further to sea to identify craft in trouble off shore.

Plans to enlarge the Centre have been under consideration since 2001 when a second story and a pitched roof were proposed but the project was abandoned when we failed to attract any Grant Providers including the National Lottery who considered we were not part of their primary objectives.

The latest, but less ambitious, Project (shown above) utilizes the space within a new pitched roof for the Centre to create two new rooms for training and instruction and provides a second story Lookout facility. Other improvements include an entrance for the disabled.
We have Planning approval & Engineering reports to show the building will take the new roof and we have raised half of the £140K needed to fund the work but we are without a major fund Provider as the National Lottery (Sport England) have again turned us down.
Please support us by donating at:-

• http://www.justgiving.com/inshorerescue

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Paper back books urgently needed please contact if you can help.

Collection available or phone 01983812178