Four years ago two Buckie golf clubs, Buckpool and Strathlene, combined to run an annual open golf men's tournament in aid of the RNLI. It is held in alternate years at each club. In 1975 a tournament for ladies was started to be played on the opposite course. For the first three years all the prizes were given by fishing boat skippers, but for the last tournament the prizes were provided by firms round the harbour, fish salesmen and buyers. In addition, three perpetual trophies were given by local firms: the Buckie Lifeboat Trophyby S. Cowie, jeweller; the M.D.M.

Lifeboat Trophy by M.D.M., fish salesmen; and the Ladies Lifeboat Trophy, by M. B. Delightful. The first competition realised about £96, the second £108, the third £125, and in 1975 the total of the men's and women's competition amounted to £238. A fine sporting effort by a fishing community.

Two brothers Keen, licensees of the Queen's Arms, Warwick-on-Eden, have contributed .nearly £1,000 to Carlisle branch from various novel fund-raising projects. Their latest contribution, £200, was raised from a beard-growing competition.Enfield branch received a donation of £32 raised by four Grange Park schoolgirls, Julie Porter (9), Tracey Jeeves (10), Juliet Schaffer (8) and Juliet Glencross (8), with a sale held in the garden of one of their homes.

Elstree and Boreham Wood branch exceeded the £1,000 mark for the first time in 1975.

As the school holidays approached last summer, Andrew and Brett Burlingham of Bury St Edmunds asked the local branch if they and some friends could arrange a sponsored cycle ride in aid of the RNLI. The result was that 22 boys and girls aged between 8 and 14 years raised over £200 on the evening of July 29, one of the hottest days of the year.

Odiham and District branch, a very small branch covering a rural area, raised more than £1,000 this year for the first time: £1,054 was sent to headquarters.

Of this total £591 was the profit from a fashion show, £309 was received from the house-to-house collection and £158 came from collecting boxes in local hotels and inns.

Mevagissey branch, formed on February 11,1975, raised £662.56 within its first six months. This amount included proceeds from lifeboat week, a coffee morning, a cheese and wine party and the visit of Fowey lifeboat, when residents and holidaymakers to this Cornish fishing village were delighted to be allowed on board.

On a fine Sunday in October Jimmy Savile joined over 500 walkers in a sponsored walk at Beaumaris. The main walk of 12 miles, started by the Marchioness of Anglesey, was followedlater by one for younger children who set off on a five-mile route. All converged on a caravan park for refreshments and entertainment by the Pawn Shop pop group. Here Jimmy took part in a mini walk, this time for toddlers, some in prams and some holding Mum's hand.

Everyone joined in a triumphal walk back through the town led by Jimmy and the lifeboat crew and escorted by the Town Band, to be met by Lady Williams- Bulkeley, president of the ladies' guild.

A total approaching £2,000 was achieved, one walker raising no less than £300.

Three chair-bound people joined in.

One lady, whose husband suffers from multiple sclerosis, pushed him 12 miles, helped on the hills by teenagers; two boys, unable to walk, were pushed five miles by their parents with a helping hand from Jimmy.Cadet Nigel Howarth at the Merchant Navy College, Greenhithe, Kent, raised £34.89 with a sponsored hair-cut. The operation was performed on the last night of term in a local inn. Nine inches was the official length cut, as Mr Howarth's flowing locks were transformed into a crew cut.Padstow artist Kevin Platt presented a painting, 'Rescue at Sea', to the local ladies' guild to be raffled in aid of the RNLI. The amount raised was £750; the winner was Mr Ofield of St Columb.

Last year Burry Port ladies' guild opened a weekend shop for the summer season at the boathouse. As well as souvenirs, their stock included toys.

Cromer ladies' guild staged a threeday exhibition of contemporary and historical photographs of Norfolk to coincide with the town's flag day in August, raising £90 in addition to receipts from sales of souvenirs, the flag day collection and a seafood night arranged by the guild as a conclusion to the exhibition. The opening was by Coxswain Henry 'Shrimp' Davies.Andrea Walker, aged 10, presented 48 to Fleetwood branch. It was raised with the help of 12-year-old Lorraine Sharland by selling books, toys and dolls from a stall outside her home. Her neighbours also helped, one making nightgowns and pillow-cases for sale on the stall.A clay pigeon shoot by Petworth and District branch at Frog Farm made a profit of £85 for the RNLI. Seventy-six teams of guns from Sussex, Hampshire and Surrey took part. The main award, the Leconfield Trophy for the open competition given by Lord Egremont, who also presented the prizes, was won by M. Merritt, G. White and B. Dixon.

The shoot proved so popular it is hoped to make it an annual event.

Goole ladies' guild have received three donations resulting from collections undertaken by the crew of Cardigan Bay: October 15, 1974, £32; January 1, 1975, £70; and June 24, 1975, £16.51.

Lyme Regis lifeboat week, last July, was packed with spectacular activity: hang-kite flying; hot air balloons; an acrobatic display by Rothman's biplanes; RN and Army helicopter displays; a veteran car cavalcade; displays by the local Atlantic 21 ILB and Beer Coastguard; a concert by a Welsh male-voice choir; power, dinghy and cruiser races and fishing as well as all sorts of other sports and festivities.

Despite bad weather on five out of the nine days, about £1,000 was raised for the RNLI.

Shoppers using Access credit cards in Owen Owen's Southampton store last September were also helping to swell lifeboat funds. Every time a transaction was made using one of their cards, Access donated lOp to the RNLI.

As a result a cheque for £100 was handed to Captain George Pow, chairman of Southampton Lifeboat Board.

Two-year-old David Goodes, son of branch honorary secretary Peter Goodes, spent a good part of Honiton flag day sitting in an ILB outside the Parish Church, thus doing his bit in the raising of the day's total, £174.98.Flamborough ladies' guild last August organised a local 'It's a Knockout' in which six teams were entered: The Veterinary Arms and The Tavern from Hunmanby, Filey Football Club, Bridlington Rugby Union Football Club (the eventual winners), Bridlington RNLI and the Flamborough Dog and Duck. The equipment for the games was lent by Butlins, whose entertainments manager, 'Rocky' Mason, compered and controlled activities, and innumerable other people helped in one way or another. There were 1,300 spectators and this most successful evening made a profit of nearly £300, from which a donation was made to the Flamborough Village Sports Trust for the use of its field and pavilion and in recognition of all the help given by its members.Paul Welsh is donating to the RNLI a percentage of the profits from his forthcoming book The Spinechillers', dealing with the careers of horror stars Lee, Gushing, Price and Chancy Jnr. From Arthur Stockwell Ltd., Elms Court, Ilfracombe, Devon EX34 8BA, price 95p, postage 13p.

Waterford's own Old Tyme Music Hall, with a cast of local artists, has become a tradition. Presented at the Theatre Royal by Des Manahan, the proceeds are donated each year to a different charity. The show staged from December 2 to 7, 1974, was in aid of the RNLI and over £900 was raised.

To advertise a recent coffee morning at Pembroke, four little girls dressed in Welsh costume and four small boys dressed as lifeboatmen paraded streets carrying sandwich boards. The average age of the children was 11 years. The coffee morning and donations between them raised £507..