The Ladies Lifeboat Luncheon Club recently handed over a cheque for £34,425.45, which will go towards the upkeep of the lifeboat and the planned new boathouse.

Chairman Jill Cape said the group was 'absolutely thrilled' with the amount – the largest it has ever handed over – which included more than £29,000 left for the club in a local person's will.

She said: "We are ever so grateful for the donation and so thrilled as we have never made as much as this in previous years."

The club, which has 82 members, also raised more than £5,000 through events themselves.

Mrs Cape said: "There are a lot of people in the club who knit and we held a stall last year and we also had a big fashion show.

"We always try and have one big event a year, and this year it was the Gardeners' Question Time."

Mrs Cape said the group was already looking towards next year's fund-raising, although nothing has yet been finalised.

"We have next year's syllabus planned and at the moment we are thinking of something and have a few things in the pipeline".

David Stamford, Operations Manager at Bridlington Lifeboat, said they were delighted with the donation, which would go towards helping to fund the planning for the siting of the proposed new boathouse.

And he praised the work of the ladies' for their continued efforts.

"It is a substantial amount for which we are very grateful", he said. "The main thing about the Ladies Luncheon Club is they work tirelessly throughout the year, collecting the money for us and we are ever so grateful for the volunteer work they do".

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