Somehow, Brian Carrick, manager of Richmond branch of the Trustee Savings Bank, was persuaded to take part in a sponsored knit-in. He is seen here getting the hang of it before the event and the practice evidently paid off as he raised more than £30 of a total for the whole knit-in of about £400. Brian is now going to challenge the lady manager of the local Barclays branch, who is also the RNLI branch honorary treasurer, to raise more than him at the next knit-in.

photograph by courtesy of the Dimbleby Newspaper Group.