Last summer was one of our busiest ever. Our lifeguards kept hundreds of thousands of people safe on the beach. Now they need your help to get ready for next year.

How it works

1. Choose one of the virtual gifts from the options below. Whichever you choose will help RNLI lifesavers to save lives at sea.
2. Buy the gift for yourself or as a gift for someone else.
3. You'll receive your card in the post at no extra cost, this item includes free delivery. You can keep this or send it on as a gift for someone else.
4. At the same time, the RNLI will use the gift you’ve bought to help our lifesaving work.

About your gift:

This Lifesaving Gift could help fund our lifeguard service on over 240 beaches around the UK and Channel Islands. This includes the cost of supervising beaches, providing and maintaining rescue equipment, running and maintaining lifeguard units, and providing essential lifeguard training and kit.

A wetsuit is part of that essential kit. RNLI wetsuits take a pasting and every year we have to replace hundreds of them. They help our lifeguards to retain body heat in the water and protect against scrapes, bumps and the sun’s harmful rays – just what our lifeguards need when saving lives at the beach.

Thanks for being a lifesaver too.

Thanks to your support, countless people who find themselves in trouble in the water will be kept safe. That makes you a lifesaver too. Thank you for being part of our lifesaving mission.

Important Notice for Our Customers in Ireland:

We've had to make the decision to pause sales to Ireland for now. Recent customs charges beyond our control, impacting virtual gift deliveries to Ireland, currently means customers are facing large unexpected costs to receive their gift.

We’re committed to reviewing the situation and hope to restore service as soon as we can. Thank you for your understanding and continued support. In the meantime of course, you can still make a donation via our shop donate page.