ENGINEERING apprentices have built a soapbox racer for fundraising volunteers to race.

The volunteers for East Yorkshire Lifeboat will take part in this weekend’s Humber Bridge Soapbox Derby to raise money for Humber Rescue.

The racer was built by apprentices from Humberside Engineering Training Association (HETA), pictured.

Dave Roberts, chairman, trustee and coxswain of the boat, said: “We couldn’t believe the generosity of the team from HETA who have built this excellent kart for our guys to race. Our volunteers give up so much of their own time for Humber Rescue that there simply wasn’t any spare time to build a machine and especially not to this high standard.”