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The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. Powered primarily by kind donations, our search and rescue service has been saving lives for nearly 200 years. Here you can find out more about who we are, what we do and how with your support, we can move closer to a world where no one drowns.
Who are the RNLI?
We are a charity founded upon and driven by our values of selflessness, courage, dependability and trustworthiness, with volunteers at our heart. Values shared by generations of supporters like you who have powered our lifesaving work through your kindness and generosity for almost 200 years.
Volunteers make up 95% of our organisation – ordinary people doing extraordinary things – supported by expert staff, all working together to help communities at home and abroad save lives.
What is the RNLI?
With our wealth of experience and expertise, we are proud to be a world-leading modern emergency service, separate from the coastguard and independent from government.
What does the RNLI do?
Every day of every year, people of all backgrounds get into danger in the water. It’s a problem that we’re here to tackle.
Today, with your support, we are working harder than ever to end preventable drowning. In addition to our 24/7 search and rescue lifeboat service, we operate a seasonal lifeguard service. Every year, our volunteer lifeboat crews and lifeguards help and rescue thousands of people and have saved over 143,000 lives since 1824. Countless more lives are saved through our youth education and water safety work.
In an ideal world, no one would suffer the devastating loss of a loved one to drowning. We’d reach everyone with our water safety advice. If anyone got into trouble, they’d know what to do until help arrived. And our lifesavers would always have everything they need to reach them in time and save lives.
With you by our side, we can move closer to this world.
The Race Equality Network is a safe space. A space to connect, to share, to be seen and to be heard safely no matter who you are, where you come fro...
The RNLI’s Harbour LGBT+ Network provides peer support for volunteers and staff. We are working to create a more welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and eq...
Set up in January 2017, the RNLI’s Disability Network has been working to provide support and guidance to people with disabilities, as well as to thos...
Our flexible working and volunteering options help everyone to fulfil their role at the RNLI, wherever they’re based and whatever responsibilities the...
The Young Professionals Network (YPN) is a network for anyone in the early years of their career. The network was set up in 2017, and it became recogn...
We are one crew. We work and volunteer together with passion, talent and kindness whoever we are and wherever we’re from. Our one crew pledge underp...
Our charity is made up of 95% volunteers ordinary people, doing extraordinary things! At the heart of our volunteer ethos is the Volunteer Commitmen...
People networks are groups from across the RNLI who are committed to diversity, equality and inclusion. We have four active people networks here the...
Brighton Lifeboat Station became the first Harbour-accredited station within the RNLI in 2019. To achieve a Harbour accreditation, our lifeboat statio...
Action and leadership groups exist to drive change across our charity. They are made up of volunteers, staff, trustees and members of our Executive Te...
As an organisation that employs over 250 people in Great Britain, the RNLI is legally required to publish its gender pay gap figures. You can view our...
People Networks are groups from across the RNLI who are committed to diversity, equality and inclusion. We currently have four active people networks ...
Whoever we are and wherever we’re from, we stand together as one crew.
How we’re working to better serve our people
Everyone is welcome at the RNLI. We believe that our volunteers and staff should be empowered to thrive in their roles and give back to their communities without experiencing exclusion, disadvantage or discrimination.
These are some of the ways we’re working to ensure equality, diversity and inclusion at the RNLI:
We also work with existing charities and organisations to help us improve equality, inclusion and diversity at the RNLI.
We are recognised as a Stonewall Diversity Champion and are also part of the UK Government’s Disability Confident Scheme.
Our Watch is the RNLI’s strategic intent for 2020–2024. Within it, there are six outcomes that we’re working towards to ensure our charity can continue saving lives for another 200 years, and help achieve our vision to save every one in the UK, Ireland and internationally.
We want to retain and recruit the best people who’ll be able to bring a diverse range of perspectives and skills to their roles, and truly represent our communities.
As part of the strategy outlined in Our Watch, we will:
How do we measure our progress?
The RNLI measures progress against our outcomes in our Annual Reports and Accounts, which are published on our website
Our policies
We respect people’s views, interests and uniqueness. We do not tolerate disrespectful behaviour towards each other, our supporters, or members of the public.
Our lifesaving work is underpinned by equality legislation and RNLI policy. We take pride in our values, and will continue working to make our charity a place that every RNLI volunteer, staff member and supporter can take pride in.
List of all the benefits that RNLI are offering their employees. Benefits may vary depending on role, location and length of service.
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About us Our purpose is simple, to save lives at sea. Since 1824 the RNLI has been working to save those who are in danger of drowning. We cover more than 240 beaches
