Sponsored walks are common enough these days but the 15th Long Eaton Venture Scout unit, in Nottinghamshire, decided to bring some water into the proceedings—by holding a sponsored row on 5th July, 1969. The proceeds were divided between the R.N.L.I. and their own unit funds.

Sir Alec Rose, the round-the-world sailor, who lives at Southsea, Hampshire, recently sent the R.N.L.I. £5 5s. He said:'/ obtained this sum by signing copies of my book'.

At the time of London Life-boat Day—18th March, 1969—Leesons Junior School, Leeson's Hill, St. Paul's Cray, Kent, sent a cheque to the R.N.L.I. for £414s. How was the money raised ? Well, a group of retarded children spontaneously arranged a collection of books and toys and sold them. They made £3. Then the top class made cakes and sold them along, with sweets. Their profit was £1 14s.

In the garden centre of Spring fields, Spalding, Lines., which is noted for its tulip spectacle which attracts over 200,000 people every year, Elsoms (Spalding) Ltd., the seed experts and plant breeders, installed a waterfall and pool in 1967.Since then considerable sums of money for various charities have been collected from the pool. This year the company decided to donate the annual collection to the R.N.L.I., and in May Mr. J. Russell, their shop manager, said: 'The indications so far are that we might reach the figure of £200'.

A cheque received by the R.N.L.I, from Cranborne Junior School, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, was accompanied by a list of 40 names, all in the best handwriting, and the following letter: ' We are such admirers of the wonderful things done by your men that we (aged 10-11 years) wish to donate the proceeds of the sale of our class magazine to you. Our teacher encloses this cheque of £4 to you this 5th day of July. We enjoyed writing our magazine which is made up of poems, essays, jokes, recipes, crossword puzzles and other fun..' Through the generosity of P. & A. Campbells Ltd. there was a cruise aboard the passenger vessel Balmoral from Barry Pier, Glamorganshire, on 29th June, 1969, in aid of the R.N.L.I., all the fares being donated to the life-boat service.

A social evening enjoyed by Droitwich and district farmers and their wives left funds available for disposal. The sum—£50—was sent to the R.N.L.I., it being stated that it was unanimously agreed that the life-boat service should have the surplus money.

The Whitgift School, South Croydon, in sending the R.N.L.I. a cheque for £16, explained that Form 2B collected the money by setting up an exhibition based on The Kon-Tiki Expedition, by Thor Heyerdahl, one of their literature books forthe year. Money was raised by an admission fee of 3d., the sale of maps of the voyage, drawn and duplicated by boys of Form 2B, a competition, sale of paperbacks about the expedition, and sale of exhibits at the close of the exhibition. To obtain the necessary information the form was split into groups—fishers, geologists, mappers, writers, modellers, poster organisers, artists, mythologists (and, on their own confession, 'extortionists').

When 'Industrial Sunday' was held on llth May, 1969, at Godalming, Surrey, the R.F.D. Co. Ltd. was asked to join in the morning service of thanksgiving.

There was a display of the company's life-saving equipment in the church, including a model of an R.N.L.I. IRB. Four life-jackets were taken by representatives from the four divisions of the company and offered up at the altar. Afterwards the life- jackets were presented to the R.N.L.I. and, with the permission of the company, auctioned in aid of the life-boat service.

Said 11-year-old Victor Savy, of Petersham Road, Richmond upon Thames, in a letter to the R.N.L.I.: 'With the help of my friend, Anthony Vaughan, I have produced a small monthly magazine which we have sold to friends and neighbours in aid of the life-boat service. As a result of the sale of our first issue I have pleasure in sending you the enclosed £2 5s.' In June this year the Sacred Heart Primary School, Penicuik, Midlothian, sent the R.N.L.I. a cheque for £96. The sum was raised by a sale of work arranged by the children, a few of whom had visited the Anstruther, Fife, life-boat station last winter for a study project on life-boats. They were shown round the station by Coxswain and Mrs. J. Jack and it was this impression, coupled with the Longhope disaster, which led the children to make an all-out effort to help the R.N.L.I. The average age of the pupils involved was 11.

In April the South West Herts Young Farmers' Club organised a tractor relay from John O'Groats to Land's End which raised over £92 for the R.N.L.I.

Lt.-Cmdr. Jeremy Tetley, R.N. (retd.), who is a member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I., went to Sennen, Cornwall, to receive them officially at an early hour on the morning of 19th April..