RNLI donations increase

The RNLI has had a “significant” increase in annual donations after it went to the aid of asylum seekers.

“We’ve had a better response to almost everything that we’ve done in 2021,” said Jayne George, the RNLI’s Fundraising director. “At the end of the year, we’re going to have more members, we’re going to have more cash donors and more people who give to us via direct debit,” she said, adding that the charity’s database of supporters had also grown appreciably, with the organisation now in regular contact with 300,000 people.

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