From the RNLI Ashliegh Holtby and Brian Kemp with Laney Thornell, Siobhan Thomas, (owner) James Willis-Boden and (manager) Daniel Murphy. (Image: Archant)
A WESTON bar has helped raise £1,000 towards the RNLI’s appeal with a Bond-themed casino night.
Bonds Wine Bar in Walliscote Road put on the glitzy fundraiser on Thursday in aid of the lifeboat organisation’s £300,000 push for money to build a new lifeboat station to replace its crumbling Birnbeck Pier base.
Those at the event dressed as Bond characters including Scaramanga, Goldfinger and Bond girls and enjoyed a blackjack table and a roulette wheel.
The event raised £500, which the bar’s landlord, of Skylight Property Services, then doubled.
Manager James Willis-Boden said: “It went really well, there were quite a few people in here.
“Everyone really enjoyed it and it’s something different.”
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