{"id":5550,"date":"2025-02-12T13:35:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T12:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tynemouth\/?p=5550"},"modified":"2025-02-12T13:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T12:35:29","slug":"cullercoats-rnlis-first-helmswoman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tynemouth\/2025\/02\/12\/cullercoats-rnlis-first-helmswoman\/","title":{"rendered":"Cullercoats RNLI&#8217;s first helmswoman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">At our club meeting on Monday 10th February, our guest speaker was Anna Heslop, Volunteer at Cullercoats RNLI and Regional Lifesaving Lead. She was joined by her mother Kay Heslop who also volunteers as Operational Lead at Cullercoats RNLI.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Anna spoke of her first encounter with the RNLI after she witnessed a teenage boy being swept out to sea. This sparked an interest in her which led to her volunteering at Cullercoats. As the only woman there,<a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tynemouth\/files\/2025\/02\/LB-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5551 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tynemouth\/files\/2025\/02\/LB-1-199x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tynemouth\/files\/2025\/02\/LB-1-199x300.jpeg 199w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tynemouth\/files\/2025\/02\/LB-1.jpeg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a> she encountered many obstacles along the way but persevered and eventually became their first Helmswoman. She has become a role model and the Cullercoats station now has 25% female volunteers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">She also works for RNLI as Regional Lifesaving Lead for the coastline between Berwick and Burnham on Crouch in Essex.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Anna and Kay were presented with a donation of \u00a3200.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At our club meeting on Monday 10th February, our guest speaker was Anna Heslop, Volunteer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":625,"featured_media":5551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cullercoats RNLI&#039;s first helmswoman | News | Blog | Events | SI Tynemouth, Whitley Bay and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Tynemouth, Whitley Bay and District : Blog &amp; News : Cullercoats RNLI&#039;s first helmswoman : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Tynemouth, Whitley Bay and District . 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