Birthday treat: pictured right are two Poole schoolchildren, Katie Morgan 7'/2 and Richard Winter 11, who visited the RNLI's headquarters during the half term holiday, not only to enroll in the Storm Force Club for under 16s, but also to celebrate the Institution's birthday on March 4 with a splendid, appropriately decorated birthday cake. In addition, several members sent in birthday cards, often personally drawn and painted with great care and talent. Since Storm Force was launched in 1985, over 6,000 children have joined, either as individual or group members. The letters, jokes and drawings received from them, as well as the many donations they send as a result of their own fund raising efforts, show only too clearly how keen the young people are to become involved with the lifeboat service..