There seemed to be no end to the ideas devised for 'Operation Lifeboat', the Scouts' 'Year of the Lifeboat' project to raise H00,000 to pay for an offshore lifeboat. (Top left) Bristol South West District Cubs collected lines of coins in St Catherine's Place, Bedminster. (Above) The 5th Newbury Scout Group undertook a sponsored clean-up of Shaw-cum- Donnington cemetery, earning about 75p per boy. (Left) Kingsbridge, Devon, Sea Scouts made a mould and built six glass-fibre double canoes, then, with a contingent from the newly formed Salcombe Sea Scout Troop, they staged a six-hour sponsored paddle in Salcombe Estuary.

£600 was raised..