Category: Fund Raising

RNLI 911 Challenge

29/8/2018

Belinda & James a young (at heart) retired couple from London arrived at Anstruther, their 45th stop, on Tuesday 28 August as part of their RNLI 911 Challenge.

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What is the challenge

To drive anti-clockwise around the whole of the British Isles
Visiting ALL 238 RNLI Lifeboat Stations
In a Porsche 911
Within 911 hours

Purpose
To raise in excess of £238 per lifeboat station (£56,644 total)
When is the challenge starting at 9.11am on 23-8-18
Duration +/- 911 hours
Where Start: Teddington RNLI Lifeboat station, London TW11 8BA
Finish: Tower RNLI Lifeboat station, London WC2R 2PP

Read the full story here

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Anstruther Keeping Fishermen Safe

8/9/2017

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Michael Bruce centre left, Richard Scott dep Cox in centre display the lifejackets

Anstruther Lifeboat Station has assisted a local association in becoming the first group of its kind to win funding in the provision of integrated lifejackets for a fishing fleet

Anstruther coxswain Michael Bruce and RNLI Fishing Safety team member John Fulton have worked closely with the Fisherman’s Mutual Association (FMA) in Pittenweem to secure a grant totalling over 60% of the total costs from the European Maritime Fisheries Fund to provide local skippers with this advanced safety equipment.

Read the full report here (pdf)

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Memoirs of a WW1 Sailor

21/8/2017

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2017 marks the centenary of the Battle of Otranto. This important but little-known battle is brought to life by John Smith, a WWI fisherman who crewed one of the 47 steam drifters engaged in the battle.
The book relating his memoirs is now published by his great niece and proceeds are donated to the RNLI.

Find out more here.

Below: David Corstorphine, a relative of the author, presents the cheque for some of the book's proceeds to the coxswain

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Successful Open Day

27/5/2017

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Anstruther's Open Day on 27th May was strongly supported by the public. About 750 people visited the station and had the opportunity to board the lifeboats. Hundreds of pounds were donated, and burger sales and flag day raising over £2000. Shop sales amounted to £1233: the largest one-day turnover on record.
The strength of support and the generosity of the people demonstrated the appreciation of the RNLI volunteers' life-saving work

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Annual Charity Dook

26/12/2016

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35 brave - or mad - volunteers swam across the mouth of the Anstruther inner harbour on Boxing Day in the 13th Annual Charity "dook" (translation 'dunking'). In cold, windy contitions and dressed in an assortment of swimwear, including male bikinis, the volunteers performed under the watchful eyes of the ILB crew exercising in the harbour.
Barry Gourlay, Anstruther senior helm, has completed all 13 dooks.

The event raised thousands of pounds for the Heart, Chest & Stroke Charity.

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Anstruther Lifeboat Station welcomes new self-funded £45,000 D class vessel

27/10/2016

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Anstruther RNLI took charge of a brand new £45,000 D class lifeboat replacing the Rotary Centenary Queen in a project paid for entirely by the Anstruther crews fundraising efforts over the last 7 years.
It was the exertions of the volunteer crew at numerous events held each year to raise the total amount and provide their own replacement boat which was named Akira by Kirkton of Largo Primary School pupil Eden Russell at a competition held in May of this year.

Station coxswain Michael Bruce commented ‘It is a great privilege and testimony to the crew here at Anstruther to take receipt of this top of the range lifeboat. We participate in a vast number of fundraising opportunities each year such as our own station Open Day, the Anstruther Harbour Festival and sell burgers at events in and around the town which has allowed us the honour of funding this boat we have here today.
We would like to thank the local community for their continued support in attending such events and we are proud to let them see what their money has helped contribute towards’.
Akira, which will be named at an official ceremony in May of next year, replaces the previous serving Rotary Centenary Queen which, since 2007, has taken part in over 140 shouts rescuing over 100 people.

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RNLI 911 Challenge

Anstruther Keeping Fishermen Safe

Memoirs of a WW1 Sailor

Successful Open Day

Annual Charity Dook

Anstruther Lifeboat Station welcomes new self-funded £45,000 D class vessel

Anstruther Lifeboat News

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