Erdington Branch RNLI
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Despite being so far from the sea, Birmingham has a long history of support for the RNLI. Since the RNLI was founded in 1824, the people of Birmingham and the West Midlands have directly funded over 50 lifeboats. The most recent is the Trent class lifeboat Forward Birmingham, formerly stationed at Exmouth now on the relief fleet, the money for which was raised from a city wide appeal in 1995 and 1996. When you take into account the fact that each all weather lifeboat now costs almost £2 million the City has raised an incredible amount of money. The average annual funds raised are around £200,000 for the West Midlands of which around £70,000 is from Birmingham.
Following the appeal to raise funds for the new Tamar lifeboat for Angle in S.wales the new boat 16-11 Mark Mason was delivered on 17 March 2009 .
The 2009 provisional launch figures have been published :-
RNLI lifeboats launched 9,154 times saving 8,186 people.The Beach Lifeguards dealt with 13,588 incidents assisting 15,954 people. The busiest year in the Charities 186 year history.
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| If you work with young people please visit the shorething section of the main RNLI site. There are sections for the young people themselves plus teachers/youth worker sections. Click on the logo |
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| If you are an Amazon.co.uk user you can help us even more by using the RNLI dedicated link to buy your books, CDs and DVDs which gives us a donation on each sale. Please click on the logo |
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| If you are in our area and wish to arrange for a speaker to visit your youth organisation or school please get in touch with us and we'll arrange something for you. If you are not in our area I will arrange for someone in your area to contact you. If you can spare a couple of hours occasionally during the year to help in fundraising please get in touch |
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The fleet listing has been updated on 10 January 2010 Site updated 25 January 2010