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Harley Owners Group raise £1,500! (By Timothy John)Fifty leather-clad bikers on gleaming Harley Davidson motorcycles rolled onto Poole Quay at high noon on 5 June to present the RNLI with a cheque for £1,500. The Oxford UK Chapter of the Harley Owners Group (H.O.G.) had chosen the Poole charity as one of three recipients for money raised from its monthly charity raffle. Poole lifeboat station’s Operations Manager Rod Brown
received the cheque on board The City of Sheffield – the harbour’s
all-weather lifeboat. ‘All of our funding comes from volunteers
and without people like these we wouldn’t exist,’ said Mr
Brown. Paul Taylor, the station’s only full-time member
of staff, welcomed the donation: ‘It costs over £1,000 to
train a volunteer for a year. This donation will turn a member of the
public into an RNLI crew member.’ The money will be spent as part
of the RNLI’s Train one, save many campaign. The charity aims to
raise £10M in the next 5 years. (Press the Auto button below to start the slideshow or use the Previous and Next buttons) 
David Simpson, the Director of the Oxford Chapter of the famous bikers group, presented the cheque. Dr. Simpson’s support for the RNLI began as an RAF pilot, providing air cover for the lifeboat crew in Cornwall. ‘It is scandalous that a wonderful organisation like the RNLI does not receive funding from the Government,’ he said. The bikers were welcomed by the RNLI’s local fundraising committee who have raised nearly £30,000 since reopening the charity’s quay-side museum last May. The museum is run by a team of almost 30 volunteers, and has received more than 9,000 visitors since Easter. ‘We always need more volunteers,’ said Lindsay Gray, the committee’s secretary. Anyone wishing to volunteer should email Mrs Gray on Lins@waitrose.com.
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