Coastguard Association
I created this site on a belief that education should help people develop their own minds, confidence and practical understanding.
As a former Lecturer, and a Coastguard Search and Rescue Officer, I do also have an affinity with the Coastguard Association (CGA) and the support it provides to those who serve, and have served.
Membership is open to everyone
You do not need to be a Coastguard to become a member. Joining is a practical way to show appreciation for the people who protect lives around the UK coastline and across the North Atlantic, while supporting the wider Coastguard community. If this service matters to you, please do consider becoming a member.
Heritage Homeschooling began with a simple challenge: start helping people grow into educated adults by developing their own brains, not abusing them. The values I learned in search and rescue, learning responsibility, resilience and looking after one another, closely reflect that mission.
The Coastguard Association provides valued support to the Coastguard community, and we all commit so much for others in need 👍
Service where it matters most
Coastguards take responsibility for rescues along the coastline and far into the North Atlantic, in fact up to 1,000 miles offshore.
Often with difficult weather, raging, heaving seas, and very dangerous conditions.
Plus of course there is coastal cliff Rescue, like Beachy Head, where I carried out a huge amount of recoveries, plus OED (bomb diisposal).
All Coastguards regularly put their own lives at risk for others. Their work is a powerful combination of calm judgement whilst under enormous pressures, coordinated teamwork, and practical knowledge in action.
The AA is not the fourth emergency service at all!