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11 March 2026
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
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SARA Newport SARA14 Boat Refurbishment
The inshore boat is tasked by HMCG and Gwent Police and fire to respond to water based incidents on the river Usk and Severn. In the last 12 months we have recovered many casualties from the river, rescued stranded families from boats in distress.
Many of our taskings involve the security of at risk individuals who are missing or who are actively undertaking to take their own lives. We support Gwent Police on a regular basis to provide qualified water search and rescue resources to boost them.
We are a local charity whose support activities remain of limited local awareness and being able to demonstrate public funding support will help raise awareness of local challenges for residents who we support
Individuals, their families and stretched emergency services
Our inshore lifeboat kindly donated 10 years ago by the family of Maureen Easton and named after her, needs a full refurbishment in 2026, to enable the station to be able to continue to provide ongoing search and rescue service support to local Coastguard, Fire and Police services. Newport station was the busiest SARA station in 2024 responding to 50 callouts. We are entirely self funded, with a crew of 15 covering all disciplines including funding raising for ongoing expenses and capex funds.
Individuals, friends and family at each incident
| Resource | Description | Quantity needed | When needed | How this donation supports the project (Enabling Actions or KPIs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MONEY | Funds will cover hull repair, retubing the sponsons, replacing the deck mattress (we have no seats), upgrade nav and GPS | Full grant award of £10K enables us to start the most critical refurbishment activities to ensure we remain operational | Flexible | Grant funds ensure we can replace worn parts of the boat before they compromise the operational readiness of asset. |
Feedback from community events and Emergency service partners we work with offering our services
Support for community health or wellbeing interventions
This group are donating funds for a new engine, which is out of scope and additional to this project
This is our main tasking authority who request our attendance at any water rescue activity locally