Proving that fruit and vegetables can produce a healthy figure, fancy dress partygoers helped raise £1,010 for a new Lizard lifeboat station.

The Five a Day fancy dress ball was hosted by the Oates family at the Cornish Camel Centre, Rosuick Farm near Goonhilly Downs.

Guests were asked to dress as fruit or vegetables and raise money for a new Lizard RNLI lifeboat station and slipway.

Clare Julier, lifeboat press officer, said: “Revelling late into the cold and wintry night in an array of colourful fruit and vegetable costumes, these very generous partygoers of all age groups collectively raised the princely sum of £1,010 towards the new Lizard lifeboat fund and in general support for the work of the RNLI, saving lives at sea all around our coastline.”

She added that the RNLI would soon be submitting a planning application for the building of a replacement lifeboat station and slipway at Kilcobben Cove, The Lizard, which will house the new technologically advanced and faster Tamar Class lifeboat.

“The Oates family’s very generous donation in support of this mammoth project is gratefully received,” she said.

A cheque has now been presented by Stuart Oates from the camel centre to lifeboat coxswain Phil Burgess, before he took part in a training exercise to see first hand the work of the station.