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Come and meet fire fighters, ambulance crews, police officers and the lifeboat crew! Look around the appliances and lifeboat – make sure to ask lots of questions! Raffle, table top sale, face painting, bouncy castle and more. Fancy Dress competition! Sunday, 27th August 2023 | 11am – 3pm | Sidmouth Fire Station.

Sidmouth Independent Lifeboat will be assisting once again with safety cover. If you are intending on watching the display out on the water, please take note of this Water Safety Notice: For more, please see the notice from the event organisers below:

Saturday, 12th August 2023 is Flag Day – the one day of the year where we are able to fundraise around town for Sidmouth Independent Lifeboat. From 10am – 2pm we will have lots of activities going on at the Lifeboat Station and in town, including: Sidmouth 2 (more affectionately known as “Speedy”) will also be making a trip into town to help…

On Tuesday, 25th July 2023, Sidmouth Independent Lifeboat will take part in a training exercise with RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron). The exercise, known as Helicasting, is an airborne technique used by small unit, special operations forces to insert troops into a military area of operations. For training purposes, the exercise tomorrow will involve eight troops…

Sidmouth Lifeboat Lifeguards will be visiting local schools this summer term to talk to pupils about sea safety. Do you know who to call if you see someone in trouble on the water? Do you know who to ask for? And what do those coloured flags mean? If you know a school that would like…

With the warmer weather continuing and plenty of activity taking place around the coastline, Sidmouth Independent Lifeboat has undergone four taskings in the last two weeks.  Most recently, on the evening of Monday, 6th June 2023, Sidmouth Independent Lifeboat was tasked to a small yacht that had run aground by the Rock Islands at Sidmouth Beach. Sidmouth Lifeboat’s Sea Rider,…

Sidmouth Independent Lifeboat is delighted to be operating the Lifeguard service on Sidmouth beach again this year. The Lifeguards will be back on duty for the May half term (Saturday 27th May until Sunday 4th June), after which the team will patrol the beach on the weekends only, until 17th July when full-time service will run until…

Sunday, 4th September 2022 marks the end of a very busy and successful second season for Sidmouth Beach Lifeguards. The service was extended this year to cover the May half term and weekends leading up to the summer holidays, where it ran seven days a week covering 17 weeks from May to September. During this…

It might be feeling a little cooler this morning, but that’s not to say the heat of the last few days is over. Due to the extreme weather conditions – and the expected increase in people using our beaches to keep cool – Sidmouth Beach Lifeguards will be starting full-time service earlier than planned. The…