The Roberts Bank Lifeboat Station - Delta Society is an active and recognized all volunteer, non-profit, provincially registered charitable marine Search and Rescue organization operating from the Roberts Bank Superport and Ladner Harbour. The society is responsible for all fundraising. Tax Registration #87301 4815 RR001.

The operational side of the society, known as the Delta Marine Unit, provides life-saving and other marine services that are required in these highly traveled waters with Vancouver Island ferries, deep sea ships, tugs, pleasure craft, fishing boats and hundreds of small aeroplanes, helicopters and commercial aircraft flying over the strait on a daily basis. Our crew of trained volunteers work hard to provide the community of Delta with the best possible boating safety and marine emergency service.

• Make a one time or ongoing donation through either your bank or via the Donate Now button on the home page
• Make a Legacy donation in your will
• Make a donation "in memorial"
• Are you a business? Consider becoming a corporate sponsor.
• Become a society member, fees are $5 per year and we provide a newsletter, photo of the vessel, and a membership card
• Attend a RBLS-DS fund raising event. Watch our calendar on this site or Facebook for further details.
• Become a serving member of the ships crew
• Make services in-kind donations
• Buy an "I support Roberts Bank Lifeboat" bumper sticker, $2 ea or 3 for $5 from any of our community events or send a cheque / money order to Roberts Bank Lifeboat Station - Delta Society, PO Box 18123, Delta, BC, V4L 2M4, Canada

Please feel free to download our fundraising materials. The brochure includes a cutaway section that you can mail back to us.

Roberts Bank Appeal
Roberts Bank Lifeboat Brochure
Roberts Bank Lifeboat Fundraising Letters

Donation Form

Become a member of the society, print and complete this form and mail it back to us. Support your community lifeboat and the volunteers who care about Delta.

Bottle Returns

Your bottle returns really benefit our society. If you live in the lower mainland of BC you can take your cans, bottles and juice containers to the following Return It Centres:

• Tsawwassen Encorp Return-It Centre located at 5636 12th Ave (beside the Petro Canada Station on 12th Ave) and have the proceeds go to #13 Roberts Bank Lifeboat and we get a cheque for the returns. Please tell the staff before you start the process where you want the funds to go.
  
  
• Ladner Encorp Return-It Centre located at 4930 Elliot St, get the money for your return, put it in an envelope available at the counter, mark #201 Roberts Bank Lifeboat on it and place in the blue safe box on the wall, we later get a cheque for the returns. The staff at the centre will show you how to complete the procedure.
  

RBLS-DS Legacies & Memorial Donations

Many people use their Wills to leave the precious gift of a legacy to a favourite charity because donations in this way are free from Capital Gains Tax. It's a wonderful opportunity to do something positive in your lifetime to make an individual contribution to our work in the future

There are several ways in which you can leave a legacy to the Roberts Bank Lifeboat Station - Delta Society.

Make a Monetary Gift
This involves leaving a specific amount as a cash donation to the charity.

Make a Residual Gift
After making a provision for your family and friends, you may consider leaving the remainder, or a proportion of your estate to the charity.

Make a Gift in Kind
Bequeath a gift of shares, property, or any other items you may wish to leave to the charity.

In Memory
Ask family and friends to make a donation to the charity in lieu of flowers.

What to do Next
If you have not already done so, we recommend you appoint a solicitor / lawyer to help draw up, or make changes to your will. Your solicitor / lawyer will request the following information from you:

Name of Charity
Roberts Bank Lifeboat Station - Delta Society

Charity Address
PO Box 18123
Delta, BC  V4L-2M4
Canada

Registered Charity Number
Tax #87301 4815 RR001.

Our society is an active participant in community events, either on the water or usually setting up a boating safety display and talking with the public. Over the past few years we have been involved with:

• Pancake Breakfast with Santa for Ladner Business Association
• Carol Ships
• Communications Festival
• Tsawwassen Sun Fest
• Delta Emergency Preparedness Weeks
• Delta Public Works Open House
• Remembrance Day Services
• Commemoration of George Massey Tunnel
• River Mania
• Emergency Communications Exercises
• Wooden Boat Festival
• Ladner Harbour Cleanup
• Ladner Village Market
• Boating safety and education events
• Boating Safety Checks through certified courtesy inspections
• And many others...

Our volunteers donate countless hours of their time to train and actively participate as a significant part of the front-line response to marine distress in Canada. They must also volunteer even more of their time to actively raise the funds necessary to keep us afloat - and that's no small order. As we are not funded, the marine rescue society relies on donations to help run the vessel. This includes: operational costs, equipment, fuel, training, medical equipment, vessel maintenance, insurance, licensing, ship's phone, pagers and many other items necessary to keep the vessel ready and able to operate on short notice as a dedicated response vessel.

We realize these are challenging financial times, but rest assured your donation does make a difference to marine rescue. Help us help you...our objectives still remain the same:

1. Save lives
2. The safety of those on and around the water
3. The security of our local community
4. To increase awareness of boating safety in the local community
5. Provide support to local police and fire agencies, Canadian Coast Guard, and US Coast Guard (if requested)
6. Maintain professional standards
7. To provide a multi mission capable vessel or vessels with the most up to date equipment possible and well trained crews

If you have any questions or wish to make a donation, please contact the society via the "Contact Us" link under the "About RBLB" tab, or direct via the email address below. Donations may also be made by clicking on the "Donate Now" button on the home page.



The Roberts Bank Lifeboat Station - Delta Society (RBLS-DS) does not share or trade its membership lists. We are committed to adhering to the principles of PIPEDA (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Document Act) and to the protection of the privacy and confidentiality of the personal information of its donors, members, directors, volunteers, and other stakeholders. The RBLS-DS values the trust of those we deal with, and of the public, and recognizes that maintaining this trust requires that we be transparent and accountable in how we treat the information individuals choose to entrust to us.