Fantastic 4 Ball Competition at the prestigious St Pierre Old Course Chepstow
Registration from 9am. Shotgun start at 10:30
Welcome coffee and bacon roll
Teams of 4 with great prizes for the best individual and best team rounds
Post match meal
Other fun competitions to enter:
hole in one, nearest the pin and longest drive.
Win a lifeboat experience on our flagship vessel SARA Lifeboat 1 – ‘The Jim Hewitt’ !
Great value at £70/person – £280/team
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Raising money for the Replacement Launch Tractor and its Home
The wonderful and trusty lifeboat launch tractor at SARA Beachley Lifeboat Station has served us well over the past 20 years. However, over 20 years of service has taken its toll and it now needs ever increasing amounts of TLC. It now spends a lot of time stripped down for repairs. The time has sadly come to retire this much loved machine and replace it. In 2024 we raised the funds for the new Lifeboat Launch Tractor for SARA Beachley. The good news is that we have now sourced a fantastic machine, and a great team of engineers who will fully refurbish and marinise it for us. It is on order and we expect delivery in the spring.
We now need to build it a home – a new ‘Launch Tractor Shed’. The tractor will be larger than the current vehicle and will not fit in the space in the boathouse where the current one lives – but it is really tight for space there, and a little more room will really help with the storage of equipment, space to carry out maintenance on the boats and space in the changing room.
We have been incredibly fortunate in that a plot of land at the Ferry Inn development site has been allocated to us. We have had planning drawings prepared, and the application for planning consent has been submitted. It is in the perfect location to help us really streamline our launch procedure. The cost will be in the region of £60,000 and raising this will be the focus of our project fundraising during 2025
We are also hoping that local construction industry businesses including materials suppliers, CDM professionals, engineers, trades and anyone else who can help this project happen would be interested in being a part of it. If this could be you or your organisation please get in touch with Mary Miller at
mary.miller@sara-rescue.org.uk to discuss.
Thank you!
