Cheque Presentation to NCI Mablethorpe

National Coastwatch Trustee Mike Newbold is photographed presenting a Start up cheque to Acting Deputy Station Manager, Bill Watson, of Mablethorpe watched by two of the local Town councillors.The location was the public meeting being held to launch National Coastwatch Mablethorpe.

NCI Mablethorpe is the 42nd NCI station to be established, around the coastof Britain, and the second in Lincolnshire; the first being Skegness (Winthorpe) which was established in 2004.

The meeting took place at The Montalt Arms, Mablethorpe, and was well attended, by 40 local people; friends from the Mablethorpe Coastguard who have kindly offered support with training.  A Volunteer force of 25 persons have applied for training, but more are required: Anyone from 18 to 85 can apply.  The team now start training in year round beach safety surveillance by Spotting, Reporting and Plotting incidents with an aim to commence basic uniformed training watches by Easter.

East Lindsey District Council has rented the group a Beach Chalet on the Promenade,far from ideal but it is a start. This they have to get equipped and ready prior to the Bank holiday. Skegness Coastwatch Senior Staff are generously donating their spare time to train the group to an operational level.

The ELDC Chalet rented to the Group at Mablethope

The National Coastwatch Mablethorpe team are starting fund raising even before they start watching because they are establishing a completely new station. The station is busy looking for equipment such as binoculars, telescopes and a barometer. Any help with sponsorship, donations, offers of help or further volunteers will be gratefully received: Contact Bill Watson on 01507 472037

Happy Christmas to you all

The team from NCI Ingoldmells have moved house.. we have relocated to Winthorpe, Skegness and have been renamed NCI Skegness. We relocated in May/June and the transfer of operations took just over a week to reinstall all the services and equipment. We are now located in the Old Coastguard Building on Winthorpe Avenue, Winthorpe.

The area we now survey covers from Skegness Pier through to Jacksons Corner and we have visual over all of the magnificent Beach and tide line along with the area of the New Centrica Windfarm off Skegness.

NCI Skegness are operational seven days a week from 0930 in the morning till 1800 in the evening during the Summer months and till Dusk during the winter, to maintain our high level of commitment to the Community we are always looking for new members.

Paul Fretwell has been recently appointed Recruitment Co-ordinator and can be contacted at the tower, or by filling the Volunteer Form to be found elsewhere on this web site.

We are a registered charity and are self financing, receiving donations from the General Public for which we are exceedingly grateful, please give a thought to donating through the link on this page. All Donations go to fund the operation locally. NCI Skegness would like to welcome corporate sponsors locally and enquiries should be made to Roger Gilburd, Deputy Station Manager on 01754 610900.

For further information regarding National Coastwatch Skegness Contact our Press & Publicity Coordinator Keith Arthey - This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

For Further National Information regarding NCI Stations around the coast of Great Britain - www.nci.org.uk

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! 100,000 times thanks!

Our Web Site has been visited by 100,000 people  - what a milestone for our National Coastwatch Community in Lincolnshire. The Station Manager and Team from NCI Ingoldmells Point thank you all for visiting us and hope that our site has aided you in some way, especially in the matter of Safety at Sea and on the Beach.

We would like to thank all the Members of our NCI family and past, present and future who use the site and for those of you not involved we thank you and have you considered a small donation to our funds. We exist purely on Voluntary Contributions and in that way a big big thank you goes to our Web Mistress and Web Mentor Sue Bride and of course no mention of her is complete without mentioning DC PC Solutions who host our site from Melbourne Australia, Thanks to you both.

We now have our targets set on the magic 250,000th visitor, Will it be you? Keep visiting us and if you are a Team member dont forget to log into the members area.