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17th November 1996

A NEW RECORD!

1996 has turned out to be Kaleidoscope's best ever fund-raising year for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, with a staggering final total of £1,073 collected over the last eleven months for this worthy cause. The figure is more than double our 1995 total of £604, pretty impressive in itself at the time, and reflects all the hard work put into collaborative fund-raising this year by both our own staff and the RNLI themselves, who have been alongside us at the NEC Memorabilia Fairs, not to mention providing food and drink for the masses all day at The Main Event - a marathon operation, successfully carried out!

Sue Coombes, Honorary Secretary of the RNLI's Stourbridge Branch, wrote to us recently in recognition of our achievements on their behalf during the year:

Although I was able to thank you personally on Wednesday for your efforts on our behalf at Olympia, nevertheless I felt I must write to express the Committee's grateful thanks to the Kaleidoscope team and put on record that the £62.23 collected on Sunday brought the total raised by Kaleidoscope during 1996 to £1,073.01 and, since 1994, to £2,003.60.

This is a tremendous achievement, and your support and the opportunities you provide for us to promote the RNLI are very much appreciated.

With thanks and best wishes to you all.

Our amazing final total also says a great deal for the generosity of you, our supporters, and we would like to express our sincere thanks to everyone who has made a contribution to the charity this year. When we set the target of £1,000 back in January, we felt it would probably prove too difficult to achieve in such a short time, but thanks to yourselves we have now exceeded all our expectations, and it isn't even the end of the year yet! Here's to an even better 1997...

AP

Kaleidoscope - The Classic Television Organisation

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