Deben Festival
14th Aug 2021

We were very pleased to have been invited to take part in the Deben Summer Festival which took place between 7th - 15th August. On Saturday 14th we took up position next to the Tide Mill and raised £203.13 for the RNLI. We were given a warm welcome by volunteers from the Tide Mill Museum, and a helping hand from Antony at Suffolk Coffee Pod, as we struggled with our gazebo on what turned out to be a rather blustery but beautiful day by the River Deben.

Woodbridge Flag Day
28 August 2021

Adorning the side of every lifeboat and flying at every lifeboat station, the RNLI flag has been the symbol of saving lives at sea for over a century. On Saturday 28th August, we held our annual RNLI Flag Day collection in the Thoroughfare, raising an incredible £827.00. We would like to thank all of our collectors and those who generously donated to such a good cause. Fundraising has been incredibly difficult during the pandemic, and we were thrilled to see such support. WE would like to thank Susan Thorn and Peter Haffenden for their help in bringing our newest recruit to life, ‘Stormy Stan’. He has been designed to hold our new donations card reader and I am pleased to say that ‘he’ took £47.00 on the new machine. Last but not least, congratulations to our Branch Secretary, Ray Lewis, who collected a record-breaking £257.26.

Coop collection
16th October 2021

A fantastic result fundraising for the RNLI at the East of England Co-op in Woodbridge at the weekend where we raised a whopping £712.87 for the RNLI.

And a big thank you to the Coop for allowing us to collect at their store and to our loyal band of volunteer collectors. Even bigger thanks go to all the shoppers who generously donated and made it all worthwhile. Thank you.