Fund-raising

Total raised for the RNLI during SOS Radio Week 2013

Posted by on 7 February , 2013 at 2:57 pm

This thermometer shows how much money participants taking part in SOS Radio Week 2013 have raised so far for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). Please keep coming back to see this figure rise. If you’d like to make a contribution to this figure, there’s still time to make an on-line donation using our JustGiving [...]

The collection starts

Posted by on 6 February , 2013 at 6:23 pm

Now that SOS Radio Week is over for another year the Committee of the Lifeboat Amateur Radio Society would like to extend their thanks to everyone who has taken part; the registered stations and the Amateur Radio stations around the world who were successfully contacted. The initial prognosis looks good. Lots of SOS Radio Week [...]

Discover more about SOS Radio Week stations

Posted by on 14 January , 2013 at 3:45 pm

We’ve got over forty sponsored stations taking part in this years SOS Radio Week. Some are special event stations operating from RNLI lifeboat stations, some individuals operating from home. However, all of them have a love of the RNLI and raising money for this amazing charity, who’s unpaid volunteers risk their lives out at sea, [...]

40 stations now registered for 2013 SOS Radio Week

Posted by on 8 January , 2013 at 4:11 pm

We’ve had a bumper number of registrations from stations that will be taking part in SOS Radio Week 2013 – 40 stations should be on the air between the 19th and 27th of January. SOS Radio Week stations are sponsored and raising money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and range from individuals operating [...]

SOS Radio Week raises over £10,000 for the RNLI

Posted by on 27 May , 2012 at 9:22 am

Since we started organising SOS Radio Week as an official RNLI fund-raising event in 2009, Amateur Radio operators throughout the UK and Ireland have raised over £10,000 for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). Receipts received to-date for the 2012 event total over £2,900 which is a tremendous effort given the current financial climate. Add [...]