Independent Lifeboats UK - I-Lifeboat

Hello and welcome to the website dedicated to the crews of all the Independent Lifeboats who give up their time to help save lives around the coastal areas of the United Kingdom.

All services on this website are all crewed by volunteers on call 24 hours a day. 7 days a week, 365 days a year, ready to risk their lives for those in peril on the seas.

None of the Independent Lifeboat Stations featured in the site are managed or funded by the RNLI or the government. They are run and rely on donations from the general public, businesses and their own fundraising events.

Go Orange for Indie Day

For one day only the Independent Lifeboat Crews of the United Kingdom will be joining forces on Friday 26th February to raise awareness for the Lifeboat stations that operate outside the auspices of the RNLI.

Website structure

We pride ourselves in being able to facilitate you and your units with the latest in website technology to provide you with the platform to promote your lifeboat station nationally through a sophisticated level of functionality and vision unique to I-Lifeboat UK.

We understand that with such intricate website there will be quite a steep learning curve for some users to able to understand the full capabilities of the site.

Firstly the news section which is maintained by the ILUK authors and is syndicated across the county on two major news syndication websites; NewsNow and Google News.

We crawl news feeds across the country on a regular basis and post them here so that you have the ability to communicate with other members on issues which have been published in the local media, and so that they can receive greater national media visibility.

We will also be publishing our own articles by featuring independent lifeboat stations (we hope to cover them all) across the country and bio’s and interviews with legendary crew members in these organisations.

We are currently looking for volunteer authors for this section, and if you are interested in helping us to publicise the independent lifeboat cause and have previous writing/blogging experience, please email our website manager.

The second section of our website is the new events listing for independent lifeboats in the UK, and is managed by our Public Relations and Events Manager Michaela. To be able to post new venues and events to the events manager you need to be registered and logged in.

The community section of the website is our new social communication and networking integration, which is fully linked to most of the major areas of our website.

By registering on the I-Lifeboat UK Website, you receive your own user profile which is dynamically synced with a forum account which is automatically created for you when you register with the site.

There are many different applications which can be used to enhance your profile, and we are actively seeking the best ones to add to the community to improve the overall quality of our profile infrastructure.

We have found that after implementing this system, our traffic and user retention has grown quite considerably and we invite you try out the various capabilities such as personal blogging, gallery creations and sharing of videos posted on such sites as youtubes and our forum integration with the community social application.

We are striving to be a community for all independent lifeboat crew members, and we invite your organisation to use our group system to both promote and provide information on your happenings at your station or organisation, or as a means of private communication on the web.

As part of our integrated infrastructure, we provide a forum for all crew members across the United Kingdom to communicate with other and we have protected areas for senior crew members of declared independent lifeboat units to discuss delicate matters.

HM Coastguard Units and RNLI crew members are also catered for in our protected forum areas, and if you identify to one of our Community Staff Team members as being part of either of these organisations, they will facilitate your request to access.

We have implemented an extended links directory and exchange system, featuring links from independent lifeboats, HM Coastguard units, and RNLI stations across the country, as well as various marine related links.

If you find your link in one of the link categories, please click on the claim link icon and follow the procedure for verifying that the link is yours. There are also features for suggesting categories and adding links to the database.

Our final section is our contacts directory, where you will be able to contact the management staff of I-Lifeboat UK.

Please direct all website matters to Brian Tyndall, and all public & press relations and events questions to Michaela White.

If you have any questions, or any would like any help in using the site please either email us or post a discussion in our website feedback group in the community.

We regularly post updates on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and we welcome you to follow us to stay up to date with the latest happenings at I-Lifeboat UK.

We hope you enjoy our site and will actively participate in the community.

Thank you from Independent Lifeboat Crews throughout United Kingdom.