The Scarborough News

Lifeboat Day heads online for this year

- By Sarah Fitton newsdesk@jpimedia.co.uk Twitter@thescarbor­onews

This year’s Filey Lifeboat Weekend is going virtual because of the restrictio­ns on gatherings caused by the Covid-19 pandemic .

With difficulti­es enabling social distancing in the lifeboat shop and the fact that many of the charity’s fundraisin­g volunteers need to be shielded, the organisers felt a new approach was needed.

Filey Lifeboat Station still needs to raise £5,000 to cover the cost of each lifeboat callout along the Filey coast and ensure the crew continues to be fully trained.

Its volunteers hope to raise that through its virtual weekend, which will take place on Saturday August 1 and Sunday August 2 and will include shows from Magic Mike, Dearne Big Band, Stubbsies Folk Group and Ali Bullivent.

There will be videos celebratin­g lifeboats and lifeboat days from the past, a virtual tour of the team’s all-weather and inshore lifeboats, an opportunit­y to meet the crew, and videos and aerial footage of the boats, exercises with helicopter­s and real rescues.

Different posts will be made on the station’s Facebook page – https://www. facebook.com/fileylifeb­oatstation/) – every hour.

Donations at: https:// www.justgiving.com/fundraisin­g/fileylifeb­oat2020.

‘We will bring Filey Lifeboat Day into your homes, with every donation counting’

Filey RNLI

 ??  ?? A look round the lifeboat at a previous event.
A look round the lifeboat at a previous event.
 ??  ?? Filey Lifeboat Day will be held virtually this year.
Filey Lifeboat Day will be held virtually this year.

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