Your Legacy Can Help Save Lives
Once you’ve looked after your family and loved ones, please consider National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) in your will. You don’t have to be wealthy to leave a meaningful gift. Gifts of any size make a real difference in keeping our coast safe.
Leaving a legacy to National Coastwatch ensures a safer future for all who enjoy our beautiful and varied coastline both on land and at sea. If you, a friend, or family member uses the coastal waters or the shoreline – maybe canoeing, fishing, boating; or even walking on our beautiful but sometimes treacherous coastline – we are watching and keeping you safe.
With your help our watchkeepers will be able to spot a child drifting out to sea on an inflatable or people cut off by rising tides. With your help we will be able to pass on a mayday distress call that had not been heard by HMCG or direct a fast-moving lifeboat to a casualty.
A gift in your will can help us to continue to be part of the maritime search and rescue efforts and expand our numbers of stations and volunteer watchkeepers to produce more examples like these:
> NCI Skegness: RNLI Inshore Lifeboat was launched on reports by NCI of an inflatable being blown out to sea with two people on board, 1.5 miles from the coast at Chapel St Leonards, north of Skegness. ‘The gentlemen were lucky that the NCI had alerted us as the people involved were not prepared for emergencies.” Lee St Quinton, Helmsman Skegness RNLI Lifeboat
> NCI Shoreham: Watchkeepers spotted an inflatable dinghy four miles out to sea and drifting rapidly further out. It was dusk on a very cold February evening and HMCG were alerted and tasked RNLI inshore lifeboat to investigate. Two anglers were rescued from their broken-down vessel. They had no lights, no means to communicate and RNLI later reported that ‘they would not have survived the night had they not been spotted by NCI.’ Shoreham RNLI
> NCI Teignmouth: Watchkeepers alerted HM Coastguard to two people trapped on a rock face in danger due to a rising tide. A Lifeboat and Coastguard Rescue Team were deployed, and casualties were recovered to safety.
> NCI Stone Point: Watchkeepers reported a visual sighting of a capsized catamaran to HM Coastguard. They monitored the situation while the Lifeboat recovered the crew, and the Harbourmaster towed the craft to port.
These are just some of the 800+ rescues involving NCI watchkeepers last year that your gift will help make possible in the future.
People who have left gifts to National Coastwatch in the past have been motivated by their desire to support a charity which works to help save lives at sea. Their gifts have helped build new and refurbish existing stations and have helped purchase high powered optics, VHF radios, CCTV cameras and radar sets. All their money was used to enhance the capability of our volunteers to keep eyes and ears along the coast, spot people in trouble and initiate their rescue.
Make Your Will for Free
We have partnered with Farewill to provide our supporters with the opportunity to make their own will for free. You will be able to make your personalised will online from the comfort of your own home. Just follow the simple prompts to set up your will – click here to get started.
If your will is more complex and you would prefer to book a telephone appointment and talk to an adviser, please click here to go to the Farewill telephone appointments page.
We gratefully accept gifts in wills but there is of course no obligation to give.