This year’s AGM of the Bridlington Ladies Lifeboat Club was held on Wednesday 16th April at the North Star in Flamborough.
The group welcomed two members of the Bridlington lifeboat crew as Guest Speakers.
Ashley Traves and Sarah Berrey both serve as Helm on Bridlington Lifeboat and, as with all other crew members, are volunteers who are called out on ‘shouts’.
They gave club members an amusing account of the interesting incidents that have happened on different shouts which was augmented with a demonstration by two of our members who modelled the typical safety equipment that lifeboat crews have to wear on rescue missions.
Bridlington Lifeboat station began operating in 1805 making it the oldest continuously operating RNLI station in the Yorkshire and Humber region.
This was 19 years before the RNLI itself was formally established in 1824, two hundred years ago.
Ashley is the third generation of his family to serve as a volunteer and is pictured with his grandmother Margaret Traves, who is the Guild our Secretary.
A spokesperson for the club said: “We were pleased to be able to present them with a cheque for £6,349. 83p which we have raised over the past year through our fundraising events.
“We will be holding two more evens over the summer; a concert at the Links Golf Club at 7:30pm and an Afternoon tea on Wednesday 25th June at Emanuel Church.”
Tickets are available from the Lifeboat station and through committee members.
