Update on Dog Poo Bins at Pett Level

PLIRB pooch Seamus has a little message about one of the local Pett Level beach issues! He’d like everyone to be aware that one of the Pett Level dog poo bins has gone walkies!

dog poo bins at Pett Level

The dog waste bin that was close to the public footpath and steps at the far end (Cliff End) stretch of the Pett Level Beach ‘promenade’ is no longer in place. This means the nearest poo bin on the strip is the one next to the Pett Level Independent Rescue Boat base and boathouse.

This being the case, dog walkers and visitors should be aware that:

  • There is now one less dog poo bin in the area.
  • Dog poo will need to be bagged up and taken along to the appropriate bin by the boathouse.
  • Children use this area so it’s really not acceptable to dump the do for someone else to step in or to have to pick up 😱

Dog waste is a hazard. With less dog poo bins in the area, please come prepared that you may need to take your dog’s business home with you!

By using the dog poo bins appropriately, or taking your bags of ‘do’ home with you, there will be one less hazard on the beach and promenade. You’ll also be doing your bit to help to keep Pett Level pleasant for everyone! Thank you!

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Our Charity Shed is Open for 2022!

We’re excited to share that our very own charity shop – that’s actually a very fine shed – is now open again for the 2022 season!

charity shop, charity shed fundraising
Yes, the sun shone brightly yesterday for the reopening of the PLIRB Charity Shed! We’ve kept this fundraising going through the winter with our Facebook ‘Charity Shed’ online auctions. However, it’s lovely to be back outside the boathouse on Sunday mornings for a bit of FUNdraising with visitors and the local community.
Things are a little different this year, as our wonderful Barbara takes a bit of a break. She will still be around though and some of our other volunteers will be taking turns at the tables! This weekend’s willing and welcoming volunteers minding the stall included John and Pauline, pictured above.
charity shed, charity shop fundraiser for PLIRB
The charity shed will be opening up every Sunday outside the Boathouse from 10am to 4pm. You’ll find a fabulous selection of bric-a-brac, curios and household items for sale – and even some furniture and textiles from time to time. You can also find some of our fundraising merchandise, including our greetings cards.
We also welcome donations of quality, saleable household items to our charity shed. However, unlike a traditional charity shop, we don’t really have the space to store clothing or books so please be aware that we can’t accept these.
A huge thank you to everyone who supports our charity shed, through buying items or donating them to us for sale, your generosity and support really is appreciated!

IT COSTS MORE THAN £10k A YEAR TO KEEP OUR RESCUE BOAT CHARITY AFLOAT

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Tasked to Assist – Vessel Retrieval

At approximately 14:30 today, Solent Coastguard set off our volunteer crews’ pagers. Our volunteers were then tasked to assist in the investigation and recovery of an abandoned vessel.

tasked to assist, retrieval of abandoned vessel
The vessel was drifting approximately two nautical miles off shore and causing a danger to other vessels in the area. As an inflatable item, there was also the possibility that, if punctured or taking on water, the vessel could pose a risk to the environment, birds, marine and wildlife.

Fortunately, our amazing crew are all relatively local and managed to get to the boathouse in record time. The John and Margaret Pulfer boat was successfully launched approximately seven minutes after the pagers were set off. It’s rapid response times when being tasked to assist that makes our independent rescue boat team very special.

Once on scene, the crew very quickly got the seven metre long inflatable vessel under tow and headed back to Pett Level Slip. Here, they were greeted by the recovery team, who then assisted the boat crew in the recovery of the abandoned vessel onto land.

After this, our crews carried out the well-rehearsed activity of recovering the rescue boat and crew members. Once all were back at the boathouse, it was all hands on deck for cleaning up and preparing the boats, vehicles and equipment so that all could be left #rescueready for next time.

Well done and thank you to our beach, base and boat volunteers who were so quick to respond and carry out the tasks as required by HM Coastguard today. Great work!

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PLIRB Celebrates International Women’s Day

IT’S International Women’s Day 22 and we’d like to give a HUGE SHOUT OUT to all women in rescue and emergency services roles.

international womens day 22
We’d like to take the occasion of International Women’s Day 22 to give a heartfelt thank you to all the women, past and present, who have shared their time, energy and amazing skills through volunteering for our independent rescue boat charity.
Across the years, the contribution of our female volunteers has taken us from strength to strength, from its origins as a small local rescue organisation, to a larger local charity.
Without our wonderful women volunteers, we would not be where we are today and we would not be rescue ready and saving lives at sea, 365 days a year, 24/7. Thank you to you all. 🌊

Would you like to volunteer with us? It’s not all about being on the boats, we have plenty of volunteer roles available … please get in touch to find out more.

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Thank you to Asda St. Leonards

We would like to thank staff and customers of Asda, St. Leonards for voting our charity as winners of this round of the Asda Green Token Scheme. 

asda green token scheme for charities
Thank you to everyone that voted for us in the Asda Green Token Scheme at Asda St Leonards On Sea!

With your fantastic help, we won the current round of donations nd have received a cheque for £500!

This isn’t the first time our charity has been supported by Asda, as we were lucky enough to receive enough votes to win £200 in a previous Green Token Scheme promotion.
asda green token charity donation scheme

Support from our local Asda Store

We are regularly supported by our most local branch of Asda at St. Leonards  as the management regularly invite us to bring our Tornado boat up to the store. Here we can fundraise with our donation buckets and promote awareness of  the work of our volunteers, and of course
We do appreciate this kind of community support, so a huge thank you to Asda, St. Leonards and customers for the support and for the £500 grant, thank you so much!

Are you a local business? If you’d like to host our volunteers for a beach awareness and fundraising day, we’d love to hear from you! Please contact us.

IT COSTS MORE THAN £10k A YEAR TO KEEP OUR RESCUE BOAT CHARITY AFLOAT

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING US

Sunday Training – plus SHOUT!

Well that was a busy morning, and one which really proved the importance of our rescue crew training to be ready for anything …

rescue crew training and tasked to assist
It started off as a usual Sunday morning, with our volunteers at the boathouse for training exercises. Both the John Pulfer and Pett Tornado boats were busy doing comprehensive training, involving lots of different scenarios!

These scenarios involve all of our rescue crew training for all aspects of our work, including beach crews and base crews.
volunteer beach teams and rescue crew training and tasked to assist
All our volunteers are committed to always being ready for any situation at any time. And today, whilst the teams were all in the right place at the right time …

TASKED TO ASSIST


Our volunteers were asked to assist RNLI Hastings in the search for a missing person. The person was believed to be missing between our local Cliff End area and Hastings. 

With the morning’s training having just ended when the call came through to us, our teams were rescue ready and able to assist immediately. After an extensive search no-one was found. Our crews were then stood down by Solent Coastguard and returned back to base for the busy task of leaving the boats and the boat house rescue ready for the next call to assist.

boat recovery following SHOUT to search for missing person
Congratulations and well done to our teams today for their hard work and dedication to their volunteer roles.

IT COSTS MORE THAN £10k A YEAR TO KEEP OUR RESCUE BOAT CHARITY AFLOAT

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING US