A hardware firm that has put firm support behind the RNLI’s Flood Rescue Team (FRT) is on course to raise £80,000 this year.

Toolstation is the FRT’s sponsor, and staff have been boosting funding for the team’s equipment and training through fundraising events, collection tins in stores and merchandise – including a Corgi toy version of the team’s vehicle and D class lifeboat.

• For more on the specially adapted D class lifeboats used by the FRT, see page 32.