RNLI Mayday event

‘Mayday’ distress calls are something the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) charity is used to responding to any time, day or night. 4,800 volunteer crew members from 238 lifeboat stations across the UK and Ireland are on standby to drop everything in an instant to save lives on waterways and at sea.

Look out for the yellow phone box, along the Thames outside City Hall and pop in to better understand what happens when the RNLI receives distress calls by picking up the phone to hear real life rescue stories.

The experience aims to give participants an insight into what it really means to be a lifesaving volunteer responding to a call for help and encourage them to ‘do their bit and fund our kit’ and help to raise funds to keep RNLI volunteers safe and dry on the water.