RNLI lifeguards patrolled beaches in Wales this year, with substantial support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Formed in 1996 on the death of the eponymous Greek shipping magnate, the foundation gave a very generous grant to pay for equipment for the RNLI’s Pembrokeshire lifeguards. In their first ever season, they needed rescue tubes, rescue boards, inshore rescue boats, all-terrain vehicles, hand-held radios, defibrillators, wetsuits and more, and these funds contributed significantly.