The marine recycling group announced in November that it was ending the seasonal coastal ranger service.
There are roughly 200-300 quakes in Britain every year, but the vast majority are so small that no one notices them.
Durness based Plastic@Bay has said it can no longer fund the seasonal ranger service.
The dinner next month is being billed as a night to celebrate Royal Navy diving in war and peace.
Business tycoon Mr Povlsen is one of 11 “Global Alliance Founding Partners” of the awards.
The guide price set for the drawing was from £500-£800.
The village of Durness has a memorial garden to Lennon featuring stones engraved with In My Life lyrics.
Both the 20-minute film and a separate TV documentary by actress Joanna Lumley will be a tribute to cameraman Dan Burton (54) who died in the crash.
A gift of £14,000 has allowed Assynt Mountain Rescue Team to purchase two state-of-the-art drones, as “a game changer” for rescue in the far north.
Highland stations have had to shut over crew numbers, leading to calls for a pioneering trial in north-west Sutherland.
Coastguard teams from Ullapool, Durness, Achiltibuie and Kinlochbervie had to hike several miles in wet and windy weather to Sandwood Bay.
A man was airlifted to safety after injuring himself on rocks in Sutherland at the weekend.
Two men have spoken about their harrowing experience of becoming stuck on a 60 metre (200ft) sandstone sea stack in Sutherland.
Nato war games sparked a major air and sea emergency off Lochinver on Monday night.
An investigation has been launched after 'Human Swan' Sacha Dench miraculously survived a mid-air collision which killed a companion camerman.
Billionaire landowner Anders Holch Povlsen has conceded defeat in stopping the UK's first vertical launch space port in the Highlands.
A Dornoch-raised photographer has captured pictures of a pod of "dancing" bottlenose dolphins which put on an amazing acrobatic display in the Minch.
A plea to recruit special constables around the North Coast 500 route has been made by a north-west Highland councillor.
More than 100 homes are planned in a major housing development in Dornoch. Developers want to build 112 homes on land north of Glenburn Station Road.
A dredger that ended up out of control off the Sutherland coast was not a suitable vessel to carry out a coastal tow of a barge, a probe has found.