Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Registered charity number 209603
Supported by voluntary contributions
Patron: Her Majesty The Queen
President: HRH The Duke of Kent KG
Chairman: Admiral The Lord Boyce.
The photo shows Eastbourne RNLI Coxswain, Mark Sawyer & Lifeboat Operations Manager, Paul Metcalfe & Derek Legg Chairman of The Eastbourne Fund Raising Branch presenting a certicate to members of Eastbourne Lammas Festival Committee Ray & Lynda Lindfield.
In recognition of the sum of more than £4000 raised over the past 9 years.
The tenth Lammas Festival will take place on the Western Lawns on 31st July & 1st August 2010.
Lammas is a celebration of the first fruits of the Harvest (Hlaff - mass in Anglo Saxon) the loaf for the mass was made from the first blades of wheat.
John Barleycorn is the "Wheatsheaf" figure sung about in folk song & is the source of our bread and ale.
Hence the dance performed each year in which he is "ritually slain" ready to rise again next year!
The tenth Lammas Festival will take place on the Western Lawns on 31st July & 1st August 2010.
Friday 8th January - members’ meeting at the Fishermen’s Club, Royal Parade,
Eastbourne. 10.30 a.m. for 11.00 - Illustrated talk by John &
Thelma Burgess - “Victorian Magic Lantern Slides” - We meet on
the second Friday of each month - admission £1 to include tea or
coffee & biscuits. We usually have a raffle.
Friday 29th January - SOS Day - Street Collection - events in Terminus Road (tbc) -
“Sing Our Shanties” in the Arndale Centre - collection. -
Collectors needed.
Events organised by individual members on the SOS theme e.g.
Savour our Sausages, Slurp our Soup, etc.
Both Lifeboat stations will be open -”See Our Station” from
10.00 to 16.00, & the Shop/Museum will offer “Sample Our
Sweets”
Sunday 31st January - “Stroll On Sunday”- sponsored walk between Lifeboat Stations
from 11.00a.m. Entry fee £4 adults, £3 children, each
family/group/individual walker to aim to raise £40, the cost of a
pair of yellow wellies for a crew member. Collection en route.
Why not wear your wellies or dress in yellow!
“Cycle our Coast” - some of our crew members are cycling the
120km from Dover to Eastbourne and would welcome
sponsors.
Friday 12th February - members’ meeting “ Pevensey Castle” Hugh Miller
Friday 12th March - members’ meeting “Love in a Mist” Esther Bird & Ian Clegg
Friday 9th April - members’ meeting “The Devonshire Park Theatre” Edward Thomas
Friday 14th May - members’ meeting “Holiday on Ice” Reg Moores
Monday 17th May - Annual General Meeting at the Lansdowne Hotel at 19.30
Friday21st / Saturday 22nd May - TESCO collections - Collectors needed
Friday 11th June - members’meeting “Life Upon the Wicked Stage” Jo Sands
Friday 9th July - member’s meeting - “Coxswain’s Report”
Saturday 31st July/Sunday 1st August - Tenth Lammas Festival - Western Lawns -
Collectors needed & volunteers to serve on the
Souvenir Stall.
Saturday10th/Sunday 11th July - 999 Emergency Services’ weekend at the Western
Lawns - volunteers to serve on the Souvenir Stall
Thursday 12th - Sunday 15th August - Eastbourne Airbourne - Collectors needed
Saturday 28th - Monday 30th August - RNLI REGATTA - Sovereign Harbour -
Volunteers to serve on the Souvenir Stall.
Friday 10th September - members’meeting “Mouth and Foot Painting Artists” Tom
Yendell
Friday 8th October - members’ meeting “ A Forties Sing-along” Trevor Thompson
12th November - members’ meeting - “Historic Transport” John Bishop
Sunday 7th November - Salvation Army Lifeboat Service - 5.00p.m. (tbc)
Sunday 14th November - REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
Sunday 5th December - “Carols with the crew” - 2.30p.m. - Sovereign Harbour -
Collectors needed.
We also need helpers on the Souvenir Stall at other events during the year, e.g. Rotary Conferences, dates yet to be confirmed.
For further information contact Derek 01323 735 970
If you wish to join the Branch - Membership Secretary - Doreen 01323 736 513
To help on the Souvenir Stall contact - Souvenir Secretary - Jane 01323 506 365
Dear Supporter
Will you help us save lives? By giving us a little bit of your time you could help lifeboat crews around the south coast save lives.
We are looking for assistance at some of the local events in your area, it could be as little as a couple of hours in the year or if you are willing to join our Eastbourne RNLI fundraising committee.
On the 18th June this year the Eastbourne All Weather Lifeboat, The Royal Thames, was requested by Dover Coastguard to launch to assist a twenty-one foot sports boat with engine failure. Although it was a sunny day there was a force 4 westerly blowing and the sea state was choppy. On arrival, six miles east of Sovereign Harbour a member of the lifeboat crew was transferred over to the sports boat to attach a towline and check over the three people on board. One had suffered a knock to the head and one other was suffering from seasickness, the lifeboat crewmember administered first aid and oxygen. The lifeboat towed the casualty back to Sovereign Harbour where the three people on board the sports boat were handed over to the paramedics.
More recently, on Sunday 29th November The Royal Thames spent two hours in the rough seas. The crew were training in Man Overboard techniques and Rough Weather handling. That same day Wexford inshore lifeboat capsized during a training exercise off the Wexford coast. Two crewmembers managed to stay in contact with the upturned lifeboat and were winched to safety by the Irish Coast Guard helicopter while a third crew member was recovered a mile and a half north east of the scene by Rosslare RNLI lifeboat. All three are recovering well from their experience.
The lifeboat crews are volunteers and they give up their time willingly to train and rescue those in distress around our coastline and on some inland waters.
Although you already support us financially, which we would like to thank you for, your time and assistance is also valuable to us. By donating some of your time to us, you will be helping us provide the crews and lifeguards with the equipment and the training they need to save lives. Forthcoming events so far confirmed are shown over leaf.
A man and his wife, who had been rescued by a local lifeboat said
“We gave what we could afford but could never afford what was given”
Vice Presidents: Ray Isaac and Norman Woolven
Chairman Derek Legg 01323 735 970
Vice Chair VACANT
Secretary Christine Wood 07825 448 912
Treasurer Marion Antonia 01323 508 200
Membership Sec. Doreen Grainger 01323 736 513
Box Secretary Peter Sampson 01323 845 664
Souvenir Secretary Jane Mercer 01323 506 365
Flag Week Organiser VACANT
Committee:-
Patricia Brecht 01323 638 257
Joy Davies 01323 410 974
Ray Eldridge 01323 508 853
Ray Isaac 01323 763 490
Bryan Lake 01323 469 485
Daphne Lake 01323 469 485
Tallulah Sandilands 01323 765 626
Jill Scott-Taggart 01323 520 607
Lydia Smart 01323 471 290
Hilda Sutton 01323 411 305
Are you willing to serve on the committee? Or do you know anyone who may be able to fill any of our vacancies.
We need more committee members!
All posts are for ONE YEAR, (with the option of continuing!)
There will be NO Newsletter next spring unless someone volunteers to produce this!