National Lotteries YOU WILL FIND in this journal eight tickets for our fifth national lottery, also a reply paid envelope to use if you wish to take part. The tickets can be sold to any member of the public and not necessarily to members of a branch, guild or Shoreline. If branches and guilds sell lottery tickets the proceeds can be paid into their accounts as long as a remittance together with the counterfoils is sent to head office before the date of the draw.

Some people disagree with lotteries and would rather not receive tickets in their journal but, owing to the method of distribution, it is not possible to exclude tickets from any individual copy.

We can only suggest that unwanted tic- American/British Appeal A 500-page book on North Atlantic Seafood by Alan Davidson is to be published by Macmillans around the end of March. By the kindness of the publishers and author, the 'first run' of 250 copies of the first edition will be sold in aid of our American/British Lifeboat Appeal. These 250 copies will be numbered and signed by the author on a special book-plate type insertion. The price will be the normal £9.95, plus £1.05 for packing and postage.

RNLI members who wish to reserve copies of this limited edition should send a cheque (made out to the RNLI American/British Lifeboat Appeal) for £11.00 to the author, Alan Davidson, at 45 Lamont Road, London SW10 OHU.

To keep costs to the minimum, postal orders will not be acknowledged unless the limited edition is already fully subscribed when they are received. Books ordered by post will be despatched as soon as they are available. If all 250 kets either be given to a friend or put in the waste paper basket. On the other hand, if you think you can sell more than eight tickets, please let the appeals department at head office know and we shall be happy to send you more.

The first three national lotteries have brought in £80,000 and in future we will be running four a year. That means that a maximum of £160,000 is possible; the overheads are so low that we could be books are sold almost £1,500 will be raised for the appeal. Although a price higher than the published price cannot be charged, there is no objection to purchasers sending larger cheques if they wish to increase their contribution! The book is in two parts. The first is a beautifully illustrated catalogue of all the marine fish, crustaceans and molluscs which are eaten in the North Atlantic countries, from Portugal up to the Soviet Union and Iceland, and down the eastern seaboard of North America.

funding a new Rother lifeboat annually.

Winners are sent their cheques on the day of the draw and the names are published in the next issue of the journal.

They are also put into 'The Daily Telegraph'.

June Whitfield and Terry Scott took time off from their very successful summer show 'A Bedfull of Foreigners' at the Pier Theatre, Bournemouth, to draw the third RNLI national lottery at Poole headquarters on September 29; a lottery which raised nearly £29,000. By coincidence the first prizewinner was a local man and he and his wife visited the Pier Theatre for the last performance of the show.

Here is the full list of prizewinners: £1,000: E. P. Goodger, Poole.

£500: D. Cornell, London.

£250: A. Ellingford, Bexleyheath.

£25: W. Poole, Ashford; Miss Bragg, South Humberside; Mr Wood Guildford; Mrs Mead, Thornaby; Mrs F. B. Harrison, Bournemouth; Mr Henderson, London; David Jacobs, Lightwater; Leslie Wilson, Walesby; B. L. Wilkinson, Plymouth; Mrs Radbourne, Horndean.

A number of supporters are asking why we do not go into 'instant lotteries'.

Many promoters have approached us but these schemes would seem to benefit the promoter more than the lifeboatmen.

Golf Supreme To enhance the funds of the RNLI and the Gunnar Nileson Cancer Treatment Campaign, Clifford Jardine and British Airways are combining to arrange a day's competitive golf with a difference. Golfers are invited to fly by Super 1-11 on Saturday February 24 to play golf on the island of Mallorca.

Departure from Luton, 0800; arrival of return flight, 0200 next morning. The cost, due to the generosity of British Airways, is £69 a person.

The day will include a buffet lunch and gala dinner as well as drinks kindly supplied by British Airways during the flights. An auction will be held on the outward bound 'plane.

Tickets from Clifford Jardine, George Hotel, Beaconsfield(7e/: 04946 3086).

Arundel Cathedral was the magnificent setting for a concert and organ recital last July by Broadwater Manor School Choir from Worthing; a concert which raised £308 for Littlehampton boathouse fund. The 30 boys in the choir, conducted by Norman Pope and accompanied by Gregory Wheele at the organ, sang pieces by Mozart, Handel, Mendelssohn, Quilter and many other composers. Soloists were Paul Staples, David Leonard, Clive Jefferies and James Richardson (trumpet). To swell the funds, the boys also collected £20 in pennies.

Eight members of Yarmouth and District Round Table, led by Terry Morrison, made a sponsored trip by sea from Gorleston to Seaham and then on to Glasgow by road with an inflatable dinghy. Crews of three took it in turn to man the boat. After completing the journey the men were able to present the RNLI with a cheque for £3,050, written on an eight foot hardboard replica of an ILB. More than £3,000 worth of equipment used in this effort, including the boat, Yamaha 40 outboard engine and 12 sets of waders and oilskins, given by Freeman's of Yarmouth, were also handed to the RNLI for use on the coast.

During the bad weather of early August, 16-year-old Sharon Slater decided to organise the children on holiday in Morfa Nefyn, North Wales.

After some days of rehearsing, a concert including a condensed version of the musical 'Oliver' was performed in front of parents and holidaymakers.

Such was the demand for tickets that two performances were put on. As a result £20 was sent to the RNLI.

Six children from Harpenden, whose ages ranged from four to ten years old, made a clover chain measuring 92 feet! Sponsors were asked to contribute '/2p or lp per foot and £10.58 was raised for the lifeboat service.

Fleetwood's lifeboat week, organised by members of the local ladies' guild, station branch and crew, raised £3,500. A crowded week of dances, concerts, flower and river displays, and including a fish sale at the lifeboathouse, culminated in a service at St Peter's Church.

A harvest home sale held in the Old Coastguard Hotel, Mousehole, raised over £200 to buy equipment for the Penlee lifeboat. It was organised by the mother of the coxswain, Mrs M.

Richards, who has worked for the RNLI for over 40 years as honorary secretary and chairman of Penlee ladies' guild; Mrs S. Madron, wife of the motor mechanic; and Mrs Mary Williams, whose husband, before his retirement, served as assistant mechanic and wireless operator for 28 years. Other helpers included Mrs M.

Pomeroy, wife of the winchman of many years standing, and Assistant Mechanic Nigel Brockman who acted as auctioneer.

Mud, mud, glorious mud—and it raised £500 for the RNLI. Ann and Mike Porter-Ward, landlords of the Ship Inn, Canterbury, organised a mud day for their regular customers. Tugof- war, greasy pole and three-legged races were among the competitions battled out in the mud of Conyer Creek.

After a successful sale held in her garage last year which raised over £60, Mrs McMurray of Rye, Sussex, has gone on this year to raise a further £84.

The greyhound which won the Bass Trophy Race at Middlesbrough indirectly raised £100 for Whitby branch, for he was 'adopted' by the George Hotel, Whitby, to run in the race organised by Bass Charrington. The landlord, Ted Davis, presented his prize to Peter Thomson, coxswain of Whitby lifeboat, in appreciation of the lifeboat's splendid record of service and because he had been rescued twice by the boat.

Four young children, Alan and Steven Boyle, Michelle Cane and Corine Rimmer collected jumble and held a sale in Alan and Steven's front garden.

Tea and biscuits were also sold and at the end of an enjoyable day for the four friends, £9.86 had been made.

An annual appeal in the north east among employees of the several insurance companies which come within the Industrial Life Offices organisation has this year realised £578.

A record profit of £900 was raised by Mudeford guild's annual fete on Mudeford Quay last summer during which Elizabeth Dewey was crowned lifeboat queen. A children's lifeboat painting competition, races and many other events helped to make the day a success.

A Japanese luncheon was held at the home of the chairman of Aldeburgh ladies' guild in May and raised £150.

The main course, a genuine Japanese chicken dish together with the traditional side dishes, was cooked by an American family, who are staunch supporters of the local lifeboat.

Eight children and three teachers of Emmanuel Junior and Infants School in Preston raised £85 by each swimming 20 lengths of the local swimming pool.

Following a visit by pupils of Berkhamstead High School for Girls to Port Isaac ILB station, the girls decided to hold a flower show to raise money for the station. Over 120 entries were judged ranging from miniature gardens, Victorian posies and pressed flowers to plants grown by the children themselves. As a result the girls were able to send £20 to Port Isaac.

During Greenwich Clipper Week, ladies from Woolwich branch sold £1,500 worth of souvenirs. In addition, £250 of lottery tickets were sold to holidaymakers, including visitors from America, Australia, Canada and Sri Lanka.

A folk music evening and fork supper at Oxonhoath, the home of Mr and Mrs Bayne-Powell, raised £230 for Tonbridge branch last October, and a summer evening at Penshurst Place, the home of Lord de L'Isle, which included supper and a guided tour of the house, raised £160. In all, Tonbridge branch, which has 'adopted' Sheerness lifeboat, raised more than £1,000 in the first six months of the financial year.

Last October, Mrs Carmen, vicepresident of Lianelli branch, was presented with a bar to her gold badge by David Mansel-Lewis, HM Lieutenant of Dyfed. Mrs Carmen has had a permanent collecting box in her hotel for nearly 20 years and has personally raised over £12,000 for the RNLI.

Mark Hannah and his 73-year-old grandfather, W. F. Harris, recently undertook a sponsored walk from Plymouth to Brixham: a walk which took them three days. Over £81 was collected which has been given to Plymouth lifeboat pontoon fund.

Each year the Ritchie family, who live at Billericay, Essex, arrange their holidays to coincide with flag week at Borth, Dyfed. Each year they manage to increase the amount they collect and this year they brought in £92 of the £496.95 raised at Borth during the week.

After being paid at the end of the week, the seven crew members of MV Hoocrest only take their money to the round pound; any surplus coins go into the lifeboat box kept on board. If they go ashore for an evening out, any loose change is put in the box. In just three months this crew has collected £54.

Shawls in all colours crocheted by Glenys Clarke are raising money for Rugby branch and guild. So far, Mrs Clarke, a full time teacher, has crocheted 50 shawls and has amassed £200 for branch funds.

Four Dutch schoolboys, Michael Heins, Dick Ket, Andre U. Oosten and Wim Vink, while staying in York, raised £37.63 for the RNLI in just one hour by playing their accordians and drums in Kings Square, York. The boys called their group Rubbish; not a name that fits the music, according to the response from the shoppers.

A weekly ticket competition held by Michael Skinner, landlord of the Mostyn Hotel, Swanage, has raised £350 over the last 18 months.

Foreign students taking English courses at the Anglo-European School of English in Bournemouth, are fined 5p if they are caught talking in their own language while in the school. So far about £45 has been raised in this way.

A model lifeboat made entirely out of matchsticks has been made and presented to the RNLI by a prisoner in Dungavel Jail, Scotland. The model is fitted with working lights and inside is a table, bunks and bookcase. So far the model has been used during flag weeks in the Southern District.

The 16 forms of Sawston Village College, Lower School, set themselves a target of raising £4.50 per form to buy ear defenders for lifeboat crews. After two months of races, sweet and cake stalls and sponsored events, £450 was handed over.

Shortly after the opening of the new Arts Centre in Poole, a concert of barbershop singing was organised by the East Dorset Barbershop Harmony Club, after which a cheque for £462 was donated to the Yarmouth lifeboat appeal. Barbershoppers from Bristol, Reading, Crawley, Bridgwater and Bournemouth also took part.

A cheque for £20 in memory of the late Dick Partington was given to Beaumaris ladies' guild by the North Wales Venturers Yacht Club of Beaumaris. Mr Partington, a longdistance cruising man, was honorary training officer for the club, and thus passed on his knowledge of the sea.

of the sea to others.

Bob Young, a crew member of Port Isaac ILB, has twice raised £25 by having bags of wet pig food thrown at him while sitting in a set of stocks; the second occasion was during Lifeboat Larks last August 27. Certainly food for thought! New Brighton station has a very good friend in young John Liddle. For the past two years John has been holding small sales at his home while his mother is holding coffee mornings. His fund-raising ideas include guessing how many sweets are in a jar and treasure maps as well as selling games and books. His last sale, earlier this year, raised £5.82, the highest total so far.

Keep up the good work. John! A successful barbecue was organised by Boston Motor Yacht Club last autumn and despite bad weather the event raised £148 for the lifeboat service.

Barnt Green Sailing Club kindly allows the local ladies' guild to hold a fork supper in its grounds each year.

This year the supper raised £720, all the food being prepared by guild members.

With such good co-operation, no wonder raising money is plain sailing.

A ladies' darts league, started eight years ago in public houses on Romney Marsh, has proved to be a real money spinner. During each match a collecting box is handed round, the money collected being given to the local branch for that area. At the end of each season a presentation dance is held and any money raised from the raffle is split equally between Dungeness lifeboat and Littlestone ILB. During the 1977/78 season. £6(X) was raised through the collecting boxes and £589 from the raffle.

Pangbourne branch has had a bumper year, raising an all-time record sum for them of over £6.500. Some £3.200 of this was raised on one day in July at Beenham Gala, for which, on a glorious day, a crowd not far short of 10,000 turned up. Of this sum £1.600 came from a raffle and the first prize, a Mirror dinghy donated by Hambros Life of Park Lane, was won by George Laing from Fife. Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, chairman of the Fund Raising Committee, was guest of honour and members of the crew and committee of Weymouth lifeboat station paid the gala a welcome visit.

At least once a month someone from the Welsh District Office is called to empty the lifeboat collecting box in the bar of the Red House, a pub near their office in Cardiff's dockland. The landlord, Mr Young, and his regulars have collected over £100 in six months.

Hove Deep Sea Angler's Club are netting more and more money for the RNLI as the years go by. In 1972. £134 had been collected in their lifeboat box.

by 1977 the amount had risen to £223 and £105 from special efforts. So far this year £187 has been put into the collecting box and £211 raised by special events.

London lifeboat day, held on March 14 raised £90.208 gross.

A raffle, a cake stall, a bring and buy stall and a game of bingo were all part of the programme of a coffee evening held at the home of Tynemouth ladies' guild chairman, Mrs Whatley, last April. The evening, for which there was a full house, raised over £122.

A cheque for £200.67 was handed over for Torbay lifeboat by pupils of Yarner House, Audley Park School, Torquay. During the past two years the 450 pupils of the house have been raising about £50 a term by selling hot pasties, soup and cake.

Mandy and Ashley Way of Chawleigh, North Devon, with help from some of their school friends, raised £83.50 for Appledore lifeboat with a coffee evening. There was an exhibition of ancient objects as well as stalls and competitions.

Leeds Model Group of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society raised £53 in two hours at their first fund-raising effort.

Their stall, at a local gala, was stocked with homemade cakes, jams and sweetmeats.

A wine and cheese party, held by a small branch almost in the centre of England, raised £82 in July. The party was held at the home of Buckingham and District branch's chairman G. W.

Battersby.

'Come as you were when the ship went down' was the invitation for a dance organised by Cannock branch, and we are told it caused a great amount of fun and unusual dress. Over £100 was raised from this very enjoyable evening.

This year's rag efforts by Aberystwyth students raised a total of £67,300, £4,500 of which was donated to the RNLI. In all the students donated money to 37 different charities and organisations. Swanage police held a ball which raised £200 for local charities, one of which was the RNLI.

A balloon race organised by Selsdon Park Hotel, Surrey, during its Easter house party raised £106 for the lifeboat service. The winning balloon reached Dusseldorf by midday on Bank Holiday Monday.

Garden parties, sherry parties and coffee mornings have helped Alderley Edge branch to raise £7,639 in the last ten years. In 1977 £1,046 was sent to headquarters from this village with a population of only 4,000.

In the summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT a photograph was published of Rupert, the parrot who 'collects' for the RNLI at the garden gate of his owners, Captain and Mrs Wilson of Falmouth. Rupert's lifeboat box took £175.17 in 1977 and £224.62 in 1978.

Portpatrick lifeboat museum, looked after by Mrs Patsy Milligan, sister of the late Coxswain Andrew Mitchell, is getting busier and busier every year. In the past two years the museum's many visitors have given £4.500 to the lifeboat service.

Point Battery Art Exhibition, Portsmouth, has been running for ten years, during which time £4,000 has been raised for lifeboat funds. In 1978 alone, from May to September, £975 was collected through the generosity of the artists and the public. Initially the money came from RNLI collecting boxes and a percentage of the sale of paintings, but latterly a souvenir stand has been opened every weekend manned chiefly by Portsdown branch but with helpers from other branches in the Portsmouth area.

Upminster branch has received £211.70 raised for the RNLI at a recent concert held at Chafford School, Rainham, Essex. The entertainment was provided by 'Stardust', a group of students from the school aged between 12 and 16 years who arrange all their own choreography, and the Chafford School band..