Following the success of last year's exhibition at the Templars Secondary School in Stepney an even more impressive show was put on this year, to coincide with London Life-boat Day. Pride of place was given to an I.R.B. Other exhibits included a large model of an offshore rescue operation, made entirely at the school. Souvenirs were sold and collections taken during the week the exhibition was open.

Another exhibition which raised funds for the R.N.L.I. was staged at Pontypool, Wales, where a fascinating collection of Victoriana was combined with a coffee morning.

* * * Captain Marcos D. Lemos, who afforded the B.B.C. filming facilities in connection with their T. V. drama series, Theatre 625, for the play Enter Solly Gold, forwarded the fee which the B.B.C. gave him to the R.N.L.I. as a donation.

Though bedridden and in hospital for thirteen years, Miss Glover, a patient in St. Thomas's Hospital, Haverfordwest, has found a way to help the R.N.L.I.

She recently handed ?s. to the Fishguard Guild as a contribution. She had made the money by dressing and selling two dolls.

Clive D. Parker son, of Beckenham, Kent, forwarded twenty-four shillings to the R.N.L.I. with the information that it was collected in fines "imposed on my sister and myself for coming home late - after u p.m." •Fleetwood's oldest surviving life-boatman, Mr. Tom Leadbetter, aged 92, who is in Rossall Hospital, Fketwood, was put in charge of the collecting box for the R.N.L.I. which the Matron is kind enough to take each year. He sat in the entrance to the hospital and collected £4 los. id. in one afternoon.

Eleven-year-old Andrew Rowe, assisted by his fourteen-year-old brother Peter, organized a fete in the garden of their home at Westbury-on- Trym in aid of the R.N.L.I. The boys sold their old toys and books, and had a lucky dip with prizes provided out of their pocket money. This enterprising venture raised £2 755.

"It is high time that I started giving presents on my birthday instead of receiving them, so please accept this small present from me to you . . ." So began a letter from Mr. M. A. Wallace, of Coventry, and his birthday present - to the R.N.L.I. - was a cheque for £10.

* * * It is not only owners of country mansions who can throw their homes open to the public with success, as Mrs. Eileen Jones, of St. Ives, Cornwall, has proved. Exasperated by the curious passers by who would peer into the window of her cottage in Barrow Road, Mrs. Jones put up what she intended to be a sarcastic notice: "If you wish to satisfy your curiosity completely, come in and look around." To her astonishment people took her at her word and soon she was showing party after party over her cottage, and being rewarded. Some of the first visitors gave Mrs. Jones as much as half-a-crown for their tour, though she had modestly priced the admission at 6d., and the Daily Mirror reported Mrs. Jones as saying that she would be giving the money to the R.N.L.I..