Rhyl ladies raise funds for thier local lifeboat appeal
Ladies from the Gorwell Newydd independant living home came to Rhyl Lifeboat station to donate £400 they had raised to the Rhyl RNLI Shannon Appeal.
The ladies had held some afternoon tea parties sales of items which helped to raise the £400. Members Vera Kelly and Irene Rogers came down to the station on a crew training evening to hand over a cheque to station Coxswain Martin Jones.
Martin said: We'd like to thank the ladies who organised the events to raise the funds and also all the residents at Gorwell Newydd for their donations towards our new Shannon Class All Weather Lifeboat which is now under construction at the RNLI headquarters in Poole. It's great to see our community getting behind the appeal and raising funds towards their new lifeboat.
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