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SOS signals £2,000 cash drive for sea heroes

Generous legal workers have answered an SOS call from North East lifeboat crews with a donation of more than £2,000.

Staff at Teesside-based Punch Robson Solicitors took part in a sponsored walk and staged a series of events on the RNLI’s SOS Day - the lifeboat charity’s biggest annual fundraising drive. The solicitors managed to raise £2,020 for volunteers from the Redcar Lifeboat Station.

SOS Day - which began a fun run-style event called Save Our Soles, but grew and grew - hopes to have raised £1million nationally for the lifeboat service.

About 30 solicitors and support staff from Punch Robson took part in a five-mile sponsored walk, eight did a sponsored Silence our Staff, while others paid to come to work in fancy dress as Saints Or Sinners or with Spots On Socks.

The legal firm also ran Solicitors On Saturdays at its branches in Ingleby Barwick and Coulby Newham, during which people could get wills reviewed free of charge in exchange for a small donation to the RNLI.

Redcar station treasurer Peter Haslett said: “We couldn’t believe the many different ideas they came up with to raise money. The RNLI is one of Britain’s best supported charities and we are privileged to be held in such high regard by so many people.”

Crew member Dave Scott said: “It costs about £1,000 to train a junior volunteer at the RNLI training centre in Poole, Dorset, so Punch Robson’s donation has effectively provided two lifeboatmen here in Redcar.”

Punch Robson’s managing partner Alan Mottram said: “Lifeboat volunteers are a special breed of brave and selfless people, and we have really enjoyed the opportunity of saying thank you to them for the remarkable job they do along our local coastline.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .