The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is the only one of our emergency services that is entirely funded by charitable donations. In fact, 95% of the boat crew personnel and the vast majority of the support and administration staff are all volunteers. Between them, they save hundreds of livesaround the shores of the UK every year!Meanwhile, I like to encourage visitors to my websites to endorse my daughter’s idea of donating the cost of a cheap magazine to the RNLI (or to one of the other charitable organizations mentioned hereabouts if they prefer) or, better still, to become an RNLI member themselvesI got a card from the Anstruther “Kingdom of Fife” Lifeboat crew this Christmas….the daft sods….so many of them can write their own names now….it made me well up!