A jumble sale with unusual features was organised by Lady Templetown for the Kirkcudbright branch. The older clothes given for the sale were sold in the usual manner, but a number of Lady Templetown's young friends acted as models to show the better clothes, which Lady Templetown herself auctioned.

Every member of a family in Bradford puts sixpence in a life-boat collecting box whenever they hear a gale warning on the radio.

The Lytham-St. Anne's branch was fortunate enough to be given the whole proceeds of a recital of Bach's Goldberg Variations by Mr. Stanley Crouch which took place at Lytham Hall, the home of Mrs. Clifton.

A sufferer from sea-sickness, who was compelled to spend the whole of the journey from Newcastle to Bergen and back in a bunk, sent a money order for £5 and an anonymous letter. The money was credited to the Newcastle branch.

The three-year-old daughter of the honorary secretary of the Pinner branch, Mr. G. F. East, picks flowers from her parents' garden and sells them to the neighbours, all the money going into her life-boat collecting box.

The honorary secretary of the Methwold, Hythe and Brookville branch, Mrs. Cowlishaw, invites visitors to her house to sew a patch enclosing a coin on to an apron.

Mr. John Shackleton visited a caravan site in Portnoo in Co. Donegal, accompanied by the local honorary secretary, Commander Stewart, and Commander Stewart's grand-daughter, playing the bagpipes. They succeeded in collecting more than £5.

Mr. J. A. Mulready, of Scrooby, made calendars at home and sold them for the benefit of the Institution in spite of the handicap of being confined to a wheelchair. He raised £5 for the branch funds.

Among the branches which organised carol singing for the benefit of the Institution was that at Fethard-on-Sea, whose members sang one night to the survivors of a trawler to which the Kilmore life-boat had put out. Another unusual concert of carols was one played on the recorder by Miss Margaret Hopewell, of Falmouth, and her brother.

The Saintfield, County Down, branch raised more than £60 in a week from a population of 604 by delivering appeal letters by hand, following an announcement in the local press, and then by placing collecting boxes for one week in all village shops.

Mrs. E. May of Forest Hill, London, a member of a Derby and Joan club, was asked to take part in a B.B.C.

television programme and show some object of sentimental value. Hers was a plate presented to her grandfather, who had been a member of the Broadstairs life-boat crew. She donated part of her fee to the Institution.

Mr. A. Westcott-Pitt, honorary secretary of the Dunmore East life-boat station, uses his own private aircraft to collect life-boat boxes from outlying districts in his area.

Mrs. H. Pickles, a member of the Halifax committee, has raised several pounds for the Institution by covering old coat-hangers, wrapping them in cellophane and selling them to her friends..