Poole Lifeboat Station virtual Open Week will run 27th July – 2nd August on their facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/donate/293700851981364/10158549905299764/
Poole Lifeboat Station has seen all its usual fundraising activities cancelled and the station and Old lifeboat Museum closed to visitors as a result of the pandemic.
On the run up to Open Day we are usually ‘full on fundraising’, with the May day campaign, Poole Harbour Boat show, Harry Paye, Hamworthy Park Fete and so on.
Our donation boxes and Aunt Betty pots around the town have been mothballed and the museum and shop, that welcomes over 22,000 people through the door has been closed for the foreseeable. As you can appreciate, it’s a huge hit on our resources and to be honest a worry.
Our lifeboat week and Open day are ‘the icing on our fundraising cake’, the finale of our summer fundraising season, last year we raised £8,000, its hard work but rewarding and sets us on a even keel before we concentrate on Christmas cards.
As you can appreciate, we have a huge void in our funds, we are a charity, not government funded and our boats are manned by volunteers.
We want to reach out and let you know that despite not being able to fundraise we will always be there, when you need us, to save lives at sea.
We need your help to ‘weather this storm’.
So, we got plotting, brain stormed and thought that we would organise a ‘virtual lifeboat week’, something informative, something engaging, something fun, with dogs, with history, with lifeboat action and even a few songs.
All that we ask is that you share our fundraiser and posts and if you enjoy can hit the donate button that would be amazing, we know it’s not an easy time but a little added, to a little can soon make a lot and will all go towards helping us to save lives at sea.
Keep tuned in for the list of ‘virtual events’ (27th July – 2nd Aug) that we have devised to entertain, to participate in, and be a part of helping your lifeboats to keep on saving lives at sea.
Visit https://www.facebook.com/donate/293700851981364/10158549905299764/ for more information and to donate
