Dept For Transport: Inshore and Inland Lifeboat Grant Scheme

Overview

Applications are invited each financial year for grants to be used within the year to meet costs of equipment and other items that support rescue operations (including flood rescue).

Applications are invited each financial year to bid for grants to be used within that year to meet costs of equipment and other items that support rescue operations (including flood rescue). The four funding rounds to date have awarded over £3.6 million to 98 charities.

Eligibility – who can apply?

• The scheme is open to UK registered charities that operate a rescue boat in the UK.
• Applicant organisations are required to provide proof that they are UK registered charities (applicant organisations from Northern Ireland that can show they are waiting to be called forward to the charities register will also be eligible if they provide appropriate evidence of their charitable purpose).
• Applicant organisations will also need to show that they already operate a rescue boat or lifeboat that operates inshore/inland and is used to respond in dangerous or difficult situations to rescue people and vessels in distress.

Eligibility - What costs are supported?

• Costs of purchasing equipment to support rescue operations.
• Equipment supported by the Fund last year included rescue boats and other craft (e.g. flood rescue rafts, canoes), launch equipment and launch vehicles, personal protective equipment and other crew equipment.
• The Fund will not contribute more than 90% of the (ex-VAT) costs of these funded items. Applicants will need to demonstrate the ability to meet the remaining 10% costs.

Full guidelines and FAQs are available here

To view the list of winners announced in February 2020, click here