On the last Friday in January lifeboat stations and RNLI supporters all over the Isle of Man, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the Channel Islands hold a multitude of fun events, cheering up the dreary and lacklustre month of January! SOS Day is the RNLI charity's biggest fundraising day of the year. This year RNLI SOS Day falls on Friday 25th January and the volunteer crew at Ramsey Lifeboat Station are preparing to host their annual SOS day winter barbecue and car wash at Ramsey RNLI Lifeboat Station on Queen’s Promenade, Ramsey.

As ever the Salty old Seadogs of Ramsey Lifeboat will be ignoring the weather, pushing the boat out, firing up the barbeque and opening the doors of the boathouse between ten o’clock and two o’clock on Friday 25th January. The public are invited to come along to the boathouse, have a ‘bit of a skeet and a brew with the crew’ and support the RNLI and SOS day by purchasing a barbecue bap while their vehicles are washed by an enthusiastic lifeboat crew.

Also on SOS day, the RNLI’s mascot and stalwart Stormy Stan, assisted Dawn Dickens, a member of Ramsey’s volunteer lifeboat crew and the station’s education officer, will be attending assemblies at three local schools, Sulby, Auldyn and Braddan.

It was in 2007 that the RNLI announced that it was going to hold its first annual SOS Day and it has taken place every year since then. It is a national event that is about having fun whilst fundraising to enable the charity to continue its work of saving lives at sea.