ORDNANCE SURVEY VOLUNTEER AT CALSHOT RNLI

Five staff members from Southamptonbased Ordnance Survey have spent a day volunteering at the Calshot Royal National Lifeboat Institute.

As part of their terms of employment, Ordnance Survey offer their staff time off to volunteer in their local communities. Following an approach from staff member Laura Masterson, it was agreed that five of their staff members would spend a day with the RNLI.

Laura said: “Ordnance Survey offers us a day per year to go and give something back to the community. Some of our colleagues had volunteered at Poole previously, so we decided to support Calshot as our local station due to the amazing lifesaving work that the RNLI performs. We’ve had a great day and it’s been an amazing experience.”

Following a guided tour of the station, the volunteers spent the morning cleaning the D Class Lifeboat ‘Willet’, continuing on to the D Class shed, the crew changing areas and the rest of the station.