The chairman of Saintfield branch, Belfast, has written a history of the parish which is being sold in connection with the bicentenary of the re-building of its church and, as an appreciation of his work, the Select Vestry has given £50 to the Saintfield branch of the RNLI.

As well as recording local history, the booklet, Saintfield Parish Under the Microscope, includes details of village life in the past 200 years.

Dorset Brass Quire, enrolled in Shoreline, has sent a donation of £30.05, the proceeds from outdoor concerts in the Scilly Isles. Most was raised by a floating concert in St Mary's Harbour, the brass group playing aboard a pleasure boat to an audience on the seafront.

Handel's Water Music was included in the programme. The second concert was given close by Bishop Rock Lighthouse. Can this be the furthest west concert in England ?The seventh Elmore Angling Festival in aid of lifeboat funds was held at Leeon- the-Solent on Sunday, April 4. This year's festival raised more than £1,300, taking the grand total for the seven years to over £5,000. About 1,000 anglers fished from 11 am to 4 pm. During the weigh-in Eric Pearman, vice-chairman of Eastney lifeboat station appeal committee and chairman of Gosport branch, presented to Mrs Georgina Keen, a member of the Committee ofManagement, £8,000 towards the cost of the new ILB house at Eastney. This money had come from numerous events, including last year's Elmore Angling Festival. Leslie Crowther presented the prizes to the anglers.

Grangemouth branch, which has raised over £2,000 in two years, recently organised an RNLI art competition in which more than 300 children took part.

Several of the winners came from Moray Middle School, some of whose pupils have since raised £1.65 for the lifeboat service with a hamster tote. Twenty small numbered boxes, each with a little food in it, were placed round a run, and a Ip ticket was sold for each number; the hamster, Topsy, put in the run, ran around and then into a box and the person who had the corresponding ticket won 5p.

Reigate and Redhill branch raised more than £3,000 in 1975 for the second year in succession. More than 30 schools in the area have seen the film 'Let Not the Deep Swallow Me Up', made for the Inner London Education Authority.

It was met with great enthusiasm and during Surrey appeal week the childrengave some £200 pocket money, while £1,000 worth of souvenirs was sold to pupils through school staff and the branch chairman, F. Carl Seager, MBE.

Some time ago, each of the 12 members of Masham ladies' guild committee, in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales, was given 25p token money—£3 in all. Each was asked, starting with her token, to make as much as possible, and at their recent AGM the money raised was counted; it totalled just over £58.

The treasurer, by baking bread, had turned her original 25p into £24.

Stockport crew of lifeboat auxiliaries put up their flag day collection this spring by 50% with a total of £786: no less than 18,000 coins! The result was achieved by 13 collectors, one of whom, the secretary Wallace Lister Barber, did two shifts of eight hours.Broadway ladies guild is lucky that its honorary treasurer, Mrs J. Morris, lives in a lovely Cotswold house, Dereham House, Willersey, and is also a member of Chipping Campden Flower Club. The club decorated Dereham House over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend, moving in on the Friday and putting flower arrangements into six bedrooms, four bathrooms, four reception rooms and the kitchen. Coffee and tea were served and after three days £150 had been raised which, by Mrs Morris's wish, was donated to the RNLI.

The top juniors (11 years old) of St James Junior School, Whitehaven, Cumbria, presented a special assembly on June 22 based on a project on Workington lifeboat. Afterwards the honorary treasurer of Whitehaven branch, Mrs Morris, was presented with a cheque for £267 raised by the children with a sponsored spelling bee. The effort was promoted by Mrs Bell, one of the teachers whose father is the auxiliary coastguard, and encouragement and help was given by Bob McLoughlin, a senior crew member of St Bees ILB.Herne Bay branch held a sponsored beach clearance on April 10, ready for Easter. The clearing was done by Anne Sutherland, daughter of the honorary secretary, and her friends, who raised £120 for the RNLI.

Following their initial sponsored walk on behalf of the lifeboat service last year, when £180 was raised, the Hull Wykehykers undertook a further sponsored Lyke Wake Walk, from Ravenscar to Osmotherley, on Sunday, April 11. The 42-mile crossing was completed by 21 of the 24 starters in an average time of 17 J hours, and £200 was raised. The youngest walker was Allison Carter, aged 11.

A voluntary collection among children in the second year of Great Cornard Middle School in Suffolk resulted in a cheque for £5.65 for the lifeboat service.

Harpenden ladies' guild, formed in June 1974, has raised since then nearly £2,500 for Walton and Frinton lifeboats with cheese and wine evenings, barbecues and other fund-raising events. Last May, 29 members visited Walton and Frinton where they were welcomed aboard the lifeboat by Sir James and Lady Barker and by members of the lifeboat crew.

Sir James is president of both the local branch and Harpenden branch.

Shoreham's lifeboat week, organised jointly by Shoreham lifeboat society and Shoreham Harbour ladies' guild, realised a record £1,000, nearly a 25% advance on 1975. The climax of the week was a tour of the town by Shoreham Harbour ILB; the parade was led by the band of TS Fearless of the Nautical Training Corps. The cadets, who gave a splendid display, came to help the RNLI at their own expense, even though they are desperately trying to raise funds to rebuild their own headquarters, destroyed recently by fire.More people than ever before attended the coffee morning organised by Mrs Diana Wells at her home in Sawbridgeworth on Friday, June 11, and a record sum of £812 was raised. Nearly £100 of this money was donated by friends in memory of Mrs Wells' husband, Sewell, who had worked with great dedication for the lifeboat service.

The children of the Lower School at Pershore High School decided, through their school council, to support the RNLI during the last school year. Each form organised its own effort, such as sponsored walks, selling home-made sweets or jumble sales. Raffles were held and souvenirs sold. No less than £289 was raised.

At an evening party held on May 12 at Kettlethorpe Hall, near Saxilby, by courtesy of Judge and Mrs Daly Lewis, an auction of paintings was conducted by J. H. Evans of J. Hunter and Sons, Auctioneers and Valuers, helped by Wilson Millington as the clerk.

Fifteen original paintings were put up for sale and realised £287. One watercolour was donated by Cecil Thornton, two miniature watercolours by his wife, Marion Thornton, and six watercolours of sea and shore by Jason Partner; all three artists, enthusiastic supporters of the RNLI, travelled to Saxilby to be present at the party. Three paintings were donated by Judge Daly Lewis and various other paintings and a pen and ink drawing were given by local artists.

With this most enjoyable evening, Lincoln ladies' guild raised £400.

East Bridgford ladies' guild's territory is as far from the seas as is possible in England, between the Vale of Belvoir and the steep, wooded south bank of the Trent between Nottingham and Newark.

It is in this country that the guild has staged four sponsored walks which have brought in over £2,000. This year a hundred walkers, including three generations of one family, set out by lanes and footpaths along the edge of the Vale, then down to the river, where Nottingham Sea Cadets' rescue boat ferried them across to a picnic lunch provided by the guild and Bleasby Women's Institute. A final six miles along the towpath, over Gunthorpe Bridge and up the hill again to East Bridgford completed the 15-mile course.

The walk earned more than £700 for the RNLI.Rayners Lane branch set 30 streets as their target for a sponsored inshore lifeboat push on Saturday. June 5. The 'launch' was at 0930 at The Glen and by mid-day successful passage had been made through 15 streets. From 1300 to 1430 the ILB was 'moored' in the shopping centre, where great interest was shown in the boat and explanatory notice board. With an afternoon pushthe boat was finally 're-housed' off Torbay Avenue at 1500 and about £400 had been raised.

Since The Admiral Vernon at Torrington was taken over by Jack and Joyce Boyd last June they have raised £750 for Appledore lifeboat; among other events, a chicken dinner is raffled every Saturday night. On July 24, Jack Boyd presented Captain Colin Lowry, chairman of Appledore branch, with a cheque for £466.68, the results of a lifeboat week organised by himself and Lawrence 'Lardo' Alexander, the founder of the Torrington Cavaliers, which had included a Black and White Minstrel Show. With a house-to-house collection and coffee morning organised by Appledore ladies' guild and the profits from Captain Lowry's souvenir stall, the week's final total was £612.COMPETITION RESULT Miss K. M. Brown of Harpenden thought he was saying: 'Will you grasp the Shoreline ?' This was deemed the best entry and wins the prize of £5. We regret that no receipts have been sent owing to the cost of postage..