THE ELEVENTH RNLI national lottery was drawn at Poole HQ on January 30 by Mr P. H. Byrt, manager of Poole branch of Marks and Spencer, a company which has given considerable support to the lifeboat service in a number of ways. Poole lifeboat station received £1,000 towards its running costs from Marks and Spencer in 1979 as part of the company's gift to the Institution of £5,000 a year, for a period of three years, distributed to various lifeboat stations throughout the country where there is a neighbouring Marks and Spencer branch, and included in other help has been a generous donation to the Mountbatten of Burma appeal.

The draw was supervised by Vice- Admiral Sir Peter Compston, chairman of the Fund Raising Committee, John Atterton, deputy director, and Barry Bright, deputy appeals secretary. The prize winners were: £1,000: Colonel L. Koenigsbert, Seaford, Sussex.

£500: T. Webb, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire.

£250: Mrs G. A. Lucas. Chelmsford, Essex.

£25: W. L. Ford. Chichester, West Sussex; D. Greenwood, Southampton; M. H.

Hodgkinson, Dereham, Norfolk; D. Stemp.

Dorking, Surrey; Angela Keith, Carnon Downs. Cornwall, Miss I. Hornsby, Eastbourne.

Sussex; Miss M. A. Tull, Wickham, Hampshire; A. E. Dunster, Eltham, London; D. G. Goodwin. Penryn, Cornwall; W.

T. Lewis, Blaina, Gwent.

Over a quarter of a million pounds has now been raised as a result of the lotteries, more than £34,500 being raised by this eleventh lottery. The draw for the twelfth lottery will be on April 30..