Welcome to the JLA website.

I am privileged and honoured to be associated with the Jersey Lifeboat Association as its Chairman.

All of us at the Jersey Lifeboat Association are proud volunteers providing a free service for the people of Jersey and users of our waters.

Having many years of boating experience around the Island, I fully appreciate the importance to a small island community of a year-round lifeboat service when things don’t go to plan.

Our dedicated highly trained lifeboat crew are on call to protect users of our coastline 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year, rain or shine, calm or rough. Having been attributed with the saving of 13 lives and providing assistance to 123 others since 2019 by Jersey Coastguard, we are rightly proud of our achievements.

We work closely with our community in a manner that only a locally managed organisation can, with monies donated fully accountable and identifiable, being used to maintain and run our lifeboats for your protection.

Over and above the day to day running costs of the lifeboat service the JLA have some significant investments on replacement engines for the Sir Max Aitkin III in the coming year and we appreciate the generous donation and sponsorship support from of our community which is vital to our future service.

Paul Richardson
Chairman