Staithes and Runswick Lifeboat weekend raises more than £10,000

A multitude of people joined in the village festivities, which started on the Friday night with the Nightgown Parade as the volunteer lifeboat crew, villagers and visitors assembled on the Staith.

Then with a jazz band tunefully ambled through the village from the Staith up the High Street to the top of the village.

Crew, friends and family and visitors collected funds along the way, raising £330 from the parade alone.

On Saturday a group of volunteers assembled in Runswick Bay for the arrival of the Staithes and Runswick Lifeboat Sheila and Dennis Tongue III.

Tides Beach and Coffee Shop also donated the proceeds of coffee sales during the morning, raising £305.

Whitby RNLI's Trent Class lifeboat George and Mary Webb came to what will be its last lifeboat weekend visit and a demonstration rescue of a paddle boarder took place outside of the harbour.

Other highlights were a fiercely contested raft race, won by three lads and a ladder, as well as a harbourside concert by Middlesbrough Jazz and Blues Orchestra and a fireworks display by G2 Fireworks, and the duck race.

Two moving services, with music from North Skelton Brass Band, took place at Runswick Bay and Staithes, closing this year’s event.

Colin Harrison, lifeboat weekend coordinator, said: ‘The sun shone on Saturday and Sunday and a village full of people enjoyed our lifeboat weekend.

‘We would like to thank them for supporting our charity and also to thank all those volunteers who joined us to help make the day possible.”