Strawberry tea success for Bexhill Caring Community

More than 100 attended the event at Grosvenor Park residential home and Caring Community manager Margaret Von Speyr said she was "absolutely delighted with the response."

The afternoon tea was held to raise money for improvements to the large community room at the back of the charity's headquarters in Sackville Road - approximately 50,000 is needed to pay for refurbishment.

Margaret commented: "We would like to thank Jane Smith, manager of Grosvenor Park nursing home, for providing us with such a fantastic venue and also all the people who turned up and have given all their help in the organisation of this."

Apart from bowls of strawberries and scones with cream, visitors were also entertained by tombola, raffle and bric-a-brac sale.

Councillor Joy Hughes, who is a trustee, was in charge of selling raffle tickets and said: "This is a fantastic afternoon. We are so please to see everybody come. It has been a very nice day, we have lovely raffle prizes and people have been very generous. We are getting out to the public at the moment and they can appreciate what the Caring Community actually does, what members who go out and help the public actually do, the library service, help with attendance allowance and so on. It is really something that is quite fantastic."

On duty at the tombola stand were trustees Pauline Bullock, David Sellwood and Dorothy Smith, while Frankie Dale and Constance Pankhurst were manning the bric-a-brac stall.