A pioneering scheme is uniting students from around the world with local community volunteers with the shared aim of helping to save lives on the coast.

Thought to be a world-first, the collaborative scheme has seen the establishment of a new National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) station at the UWC Atlantic College at St Donat’s, Wales, where seven student NCI ‘cadets’ from Canada, Kenya, Taiwan, Pakistan, China, Peru and the Netherlands have undergone training under the supervision of trained volunteers from the local area.