We've set up a justgiving.com account to look after the fundraising side. You can view the page and donate by clicking on the link here.
We chose the RNLI because it is very relevant to the method of fundraising (i.e. travelling by sea). The sea is nice when the sun shines and the ice-cream vans are out but much less pleasant in the teeth of a raging storm in the dead of night in the middle of winter. Tides, waves, cold, drowning etc will all eagerly contribute to people's deaths.
There are some great statistics available on how long a human can survive in cold water. Suffice to say swimming back to shore takes longer than the lifeboat picking you up and therefore lives are saved.
So the RNLI are basically the ambulance crews of the sea (apart from they don't get paid for it and it's infinitely more dangerous). They must be funded like ambulance crews, right....
This is where my jaw dropped too.
They're nothing to do with the government. Totally funded by donations and staffed by volunteers despite being on a par with two of the three main emergency services!
Donations very welcome and spent usefully.
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