Poole lifeboat guild raised a record £20,000 last year, bringing the total raised since it was formed in 1970 to over £100,000. Just one event in this year's programme was an exhibition and sale of crafts at Uplands School, Parkstone, which brought in £260. Skills in perspex engraving, wood sculpture, pottery, painting, bookbinding and toy making were on show and the homemade cakes and jams were, as usual, a sell-out. Here (I to r) committee member Averill Grigg, chairman Margaret Adam and exhibitor Gene Kennedy admire some of the items on sale.

photograph by courtesy of Poole and Dorset Herald.