Himley Hall SC, a small family sailing club with its waters in beautiful Himley Park, West Midlands, held a 24-hour sponsored race over a May weekend in both 1976 and 1977. Twelve teams took part in the first year and ten the second, with some 200 competitors and helpers, calling for an all-out effort by the race organisers led by Noel Warrington. Colesmere SC won both races, sailing 57 miles in 1976 and 48 in 1977. £1,155 was raised in 1976 and £964 has already been collected for the 1977 event. Fund raising began on the Friday evening in 1976 with a cocktail party run by Brierley Hill and Kingswinford branch in Himley Hall, which raised £136. It is proposed to run the race in 1978 over the weekend May 13 and 14.

On their flag day in 1960, Falmouth ladies' guild raised £260; at their flag day in 1977 the amount was £1,960 plus. Total income for the year was £2,862, including £403 raised at a cheese and wine party and £436 at a coffee morning. At the latter a handicraft stall stocked with goods made by .committee members at 'get togethers' during the winter months brought in £105.

Twenty Watney tavern and innkeepers in Wessex set themselves the target of raising £1,900 to pay for the radar and D/F in Yarmouth's new Arun lifeboat—and thought up a great variety of ways of doing it. Teams representing the Floating Bridge, Dartmouth, and the Golden Hart, Exeter, played a rugby match at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and the Golden Hart followed that with a sponsored three-legged race round Exeter city centre, visiting nine other houses. Steve Kitchen, the 17-J-stone manager of the Windmill, Plymouth, undertook a sponsored weight loss. The Jolly Sailor, West Looe, and the Salutation, East Looe, raised £650 between them, among the Jolly Sailor activities being an uproarious 'drag' race around the streets of Looe. So successful was the whole campaign that £2,000 was raised, the extra money being used to buy equipment for Torbay lifeboat station.

On July 25, five cyclists from Cardigan, Lyn Williams, Peter Morgan, John Jones, Glen James and Dyfrig Davies, set off from Cardigan on a 400-mile sponsored ride to Lands End in aid of the RNLI. They arrived three days later, looking tired but justifiably well pleased.

A back-up Land Rover and trailer, provided by E. B. Davies of Llandysul, was driven by Roy Selby accompanied by Alun Davies, treasurer of the ride.

The team arrived at Sennen Cove, to a great welcome, on lifeboat day. About £1,200 was raised.

Burgess Hill branch has recently adopted Newhaven lifeboat, and has set itself a target of £4,000 to pay for a new pontoon. More than £150 was raised in October by an evening gala performance of 'Die Fledermaus' very much enjoyed by all who attended..