Hunstanton, along with neighbouring seaside towns, attracts thousands of visitors to North Norfolk each year. The seaside can be a dangerous place and regularly catches out residents and visitors alike. There are many strandings on sandbanks cut off by the tide, swimmers washed off shore, injured sailors/ water sports enthusiasts and other incidents which require the aide of the RNLI volunteers at Hunstanton Life Boat Station.

The Hunstanton Life Boat Crew is a group of unpaid volunteers providing 24-hour search and rescue. Protecting visitors and residents using North Norfolks shores. We operate both an in shore lifeboat and 1 of 4 RNLI hovercrafts operating around the UK coast.

The RNLI is a relies on donations to support it’s activities here in North Norfolk and around the coast. Each launch costs at least £3,000 and it costs £250,000 per day just to operate the UK’s RNLI stations around the country.

In order to arise donations for Hunstanton RNLI James Wild (MP for North Norfolk) and Councillor Stuart Dark (leader of the Borough Council for Kings Lynn and West Norfolk) have agreed to enter the Hunstanton Soapbox Derby 2023 pushing Charles le Strange Meakin (Chairman of the Hunstanton Lifeboat Station) down a very steep hill.

Wild, Dark and Strange ask that you donate in aide of their efforts to support the continued operation of Hunstanton RNLI. My be their launching of Charles can raise enough money to fund a RNLI Hunstanton Launch.