Pas tout dans le jardin qui présente bien

[Tranona]

ROFL...!!!

Once again displaying your ignorance about how the RNLI operate.

 

[dogleg]

Indeed. Despite its vast resources, the RNLI regularly demands that local communities find the money for new lifeboats or buildings.

we have had several £m spent here in the last few years, a small community and we were not asked or demanded to raise any money whatsoever, new boat was legacy from donor with no local connection
and shoreworks were funded from central funds, despite that we did on our own volition raise sums but under no duress.

The RNLI does get local fundraising going at stations where a new boat or boathouse is planned and where they local community is large enough to sustain it, it is usually successfully achieved

 

[Sybarite]

Once again displaying your ignorance about how the RNLI operate.

I wonder what your thought processes are to draw that conclusion from what I wrote?

Would guess it is not unconnected with there being some mechanism for prioritising the provision of services and the demand being greater than the funds available

How many 100's of millions more do you think they need?

 

[Neeves]

Sorry don't do riddles.

If you have a point to make please write in plain English

sounds as if you are as bad as me

If its not written in 'English', or a decent attempt at, I don't bother. It too easy to take the wrong interpretation when I think I understand - I could be banned for life if my understanding was wrong, easier to sit and watch the kangaroos.

Jonathan (from somewhere in 'Outback' Australia)

 

[Tranona]

I wonder what your thought processes are to draw that conclusion from what I wrote?




How many 100's of millions more do you think they need?

Because you trivialise an important point rather than recognising it.

It is nothing to do with the actual amount, but about the process.

There is no obligation for the RNLI to provide services or facilities anywhere, nor is there a right for any community to demand them. So the RNLI has to decide where it allocates its resources in the way that makes the most effective use of them. All lifeboats in the UK are run by charitable organisations, many of which are funded and run locally so if a community wishes to have a locally based service it can either raise the money and run it independently or it can ask the RNLI to fund it and operate it. Therefore there must be some form of criteria against which to judge a proposal. First of course is to demonstrate a need - that is service would be improved or in crude terms "more people would be saved". Second is to consider how it could be funded.

There is nothing unusual about joint funding of public goods such as a lifeboat service. It is an integral part of funding such projects in the UK. Swimming pools, local theatres, art galleries, museums, air ambulances, hostels for the homeless, food banks etc are almost always funded by a mixture of sources, state, lottery fund, national charities, local charities, specific local fund raising - even the EU. They all have their own mechanisms for deciding what they will fund, so why should the RNLI be any different?

That is why I suggested JD thought a bit more before jumping in using emotive language such as "demand" and claiming that small communities suffer. Of course it is difficult for small (and big) communities to raise funds for charitable work, but equally the RNLI (and any other big charity) needs to demonstrate that it is using its funds wisely in meeting its objectives - otherwise nit picking auditors would start asking questions.

 

[Bobc]

There's a reason why these people are so stinking rich in the first place, which is usually because they don't pay their way to society. They dodge tax, put their money into un-ethical things & industries such as payday loan companies, drugs, arms and weapons trading, porn, political lobbying, etc.

What makes anyone think for a moment that they give a flying f**k about a lifeboat.