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Saturday 2 May 2026
May Fair
Gordon Barrett Memorial Hall, 10am - 1pm
Greet the summer at Wells Lifeboat Guild May Fair on Saturday 2nd May at the Gordon Barrett Memorial Hall on Clubbs Lane between 10am and 1pm. Attractions include cake stall, tombola, raffle, knits, crafts and RNLI souvenirs and of course tea, coffee and refreshments. Hope to see you there p.s. as usual, donations of cakes or tombola prizes would be greatly appreciated
Monday 11 May 2026
Wells Lifeboat Guild Annual Review
Wells Sailing Club, 7.30pm
Wells Lifeboat Guild's annual review (formerly the AGM) will be at the Wells Sailing Club on 11 May. All are welcome to attend... guild and crew but new faces are especially welcome if you'd like to come and say hello and perhaps gives a hand and get involved with future events and fund-raising. Bar and buffet.
Sunday 12 Jul 2026
65th Annual Lifeboat Service
The Quay, 5.30pm
Join crew, launchers and station volunteers along with local residents and supporters on Wells Quay for a short Sunday service and celebration of the lifeboat. Both lifeboats launch and run up to the quayside for a service with hymns and readings. The lifeboats are joined by a flotilla of local small boats which anchor in the channel to take part and Fakenham Town Band provides the music. Please arrive at the quayside in good time if you'd like to attend. The service will last approximately 45 minutes. There is no charge to attend but a collection for the RNLI will be taken. Small boats are welcome to take part as a waterborne congregation, ideally anchored to the east of the pontoons leaving space for the all-weather lifeboat to manoeuvre. The inshore lifeboat will distribute service sheets and take a collection from vessels at the the service.
Please note that this event is in July this year rather than in Carnival week at the start of August as there are no suitable evening tides for the usual dates.
Service Sheets
Printed service sheets will be available on the quay on the day or there will be an on-line version which can be viewed on a smartphone or tablet.
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Shop Opening Times
Our shop and viewing gallery are normally open weekends from Friday to Monday 10-4 along with extra days in the holidays and whenever we can. In good weather, the main boathouse doors may also be open to view the all-weather lifeboat from the front. See our visits page for more information.
Cut off on Stiffkey marshes
The inshore lifeboat goes to rescue people cut off by a large spring tide on Stiffkey marshes, 30 March 2025
RNLI 200
The RNLI celebrated its 200th anniversary in 2024, a milestone marked nationally and by lifeboat crews and stations
around the UK.
Lifeboat Horse marking 200 years in the quay
Shannon lifeboat
and boathouse build
Wells RNLI is now operating from the new building. See the boathouse build pages for the story of how the new station was built.
Our new Shannon lifeboat was funded in part with a station appeal for £250,000 in 2014-15 and also by the Civil Service charity The Lifeboat Fund with its 150th Anniversary Appeal. We are hugely grateful to everyone who has donated, fund-raised, helped and supported us both locally and across the UK and further afield.
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