The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)

"I would like to formally say thank you to the Trust for their generous donation of £10,000 which has been restricted to D class mattress for our lifeboat relief fleet. Your donation that has been thankfully received, please take this letter as formal receipt of your donation. Thanks to your support again this year we can ensure that our lifeboat volunteers around the UK and Ireland are ready, 24/7, whenever an emergency arises. We are so grateful to the Grace Trust for their support towards our lifesaving family to help us safeguard our future. Without your donations we would not be able to carry out the work of saving lives at sea. 2023 was a particularly busy year for our lifeboat crews with our lifeboats launched 8,917 times and 203 saved lives. In addition, our lifeguards attended 14,213 incidents across the 242 lifeguarded beaches, saving 86 lives. On behalf of the RNLI please pass on our heartfelt thanks to the Trustees for their much-appreciated support of our charity. I look forward to hosting you again at one of our lifeboat stations across the coast!" - Helen McBride-Croft, RNLI Grants & Trusts Manager