How to donate


Donate £1.50 by texting SAVE to 84424
(Some networks may charge you slightly more).

Send a cheque to:

    RNLI
    UK Bus tour,
    Newhaven lifeboat station, West quay,
    Newhaven,
    BN9 9BX.
You can also help by taking a photo of the "Silly Old Sods" on your mobiles and send an MMS to 07771295028
The bus consultancy company MCL Transport Ltd will donate for every photo sent. MCL undertake a lot of work in connection with bus passes. www.martlet.uk.com

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Half way there and needs a beerMany thanks to MCL Transport LtdThe first of many beers

The first of many beers

Thank you

The Silly Old Sod is now home and the  5K target has been met and we  have a final total of £7103.10  . This figure includes Dave’s West Country donations. The support has been fantastic .   Bill and Dave  have many tales to tell regarding this trip and Bill is going in due course to produce a diary of the Tour.

Many Thanks

Support the ‘Silly Old Sods’!

Courtesy of Twistedportraits www.twistedportrait.co.uk

Bill Walton (right) and David Rhodes

And you will be joining in the RNLI’s biggest fundraising day ever.

We are - Bill Walton, Sea Safety Officer for Newhaven & Brighton and David Rhodes, RNLI Fundraiser from Devizes. From 30th January (S.O.S Day) to 23rd February we will be taking full advantage of our senior years and using our ‘free’ bus passes to travel around the UK, promoting sea safety and raising essential funds to help the RNLI’s volunteer lifeboat crews and lifeguards save lives at sea.

Look out for us ‘Silly Old Sods’ on your bus in our RNLI yellow wellies and Lifejackets (don’t worry we will be wearing normal clothes too…it is winter!) and support us as we attempt to follow the coast of England and Wales in an anticlockwise direction, starting and finishing at Newhaven, East Sussex. Our aim is to complete the journey travelling entirely on public buses and using our senior citizen passes, until we reach Wales where we give a special thanks to the bus companies there who have agreed to sponsor us with free travel as our passes won’t be valid.

Please help us along this mammoth trip, your sponsorship will not only keep us sitting on those bus seats but will, much more importantly, be supporting the very brave men and women who put their own lives at risk to help save the lives of others at sea …and you never know when you might need them. You can sponsor us per day or for the whole trip so please contact us on the numbers/email addresses below and start your sponsorship now.

Thank you

Bill & David ‘The Silly Old Sods’

Bill: 07713241608 www@windnwaves.com

Some more facts about the trip

Duration: 23 days, average travelling time 7 hours per day (some 10 hours)
Total Bus trips: 124 / 5 – 6 buses per day
Supported by: 36 Bus Companies
Total mileage: Approximately 2250.

For more information about the RNLI SOS appeal and other ways to get involved visit their website:
http://www.rnli.org.uk/sosday/home.

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