Mr. J. L. Tillett, a leading member of the Norwich Round Table (which paid for the IRB at Happisburgh) is a jeweller by trade. He made some delightful miniature badges depicting a life-boat, in gold and colour, which were sold at the Norfolk Show in aid of the RNLI at £5 each.

Correspondence in The Times recently on the subject of waste paper revealed that one industrious lady collects clean paper for her local church, obtaining a price of £6 los. a ton from a wastepaper merchant. There's an idea here for life-boat supporters ! A collection list carried by helicopter around isolated forward positions in Borneo resulted in a cheque for £14 145. reaching the RNLI from Lieutenant H. H. Mews, R.A., Officer Commanding the 2nd Troop, R.A. The troop was on active service at the time and numbered only thirty-four men.

A spectacle cleaning service instituted by Mrs. Middleton, barmaid of the Victoria Gardens Hotel, Grangetown, Durham, raises money for the RNLI. It began a year ago when a customer asked her to clean his glasses. She agreed, on condition that he would put some money into the RNLI collecting box on the counter. Since then Mrs. Middleton has been using her polishing cloth in the service of the RNLI and has a growing number of clients for her service.

Inspired by a feature in The Observer - The Observer Guide to the Beach -four schoolgirls, aged 9 to 13, prepared an exhibition called "Sea and Shore" in a garden shed while they were on their summer holidays at Belhaven, East Lothian.

No one was allowed to see the exhibition until it was officially opened, to parents and public — admission sixpence. A collection of shells, seaweeds, pebbles and marine life was revealed, with charts, hand-written booklets, and even a tape recording.

The children, Joan Gasman, Jacqueline Saltoun, Ann Gasman and Anne Ross also served tea. As a result of this enterprise a cheque for 2js. was sent to The Observer for the RNLI.

Miss Anne Lardner, of the Orange Free State, South Africa, has been making fudge and selling it to aid RNLI funds. She recently forwarded £4 to the honorary secretary of the Clitheroe, Lancashire, branch, Mrs. W. Heaton. Anne is the grand-daughter of a friend of Mrs. Heaton's.

A Nottingham shoe shop manager who is also a model maker has built a lin.

scale model of the 2-foot Barnett life-boat. This is now on show in his shop, with a collecting box. Many contributions have been inspired by the splendid workmanship of the model, but not content with that Mr. E. W. Sheppard, its maker, gains further contributions because he does not charge customers for small services, such as stretching shoes, if they remember the box..