Tools for Africa coffee morning

This is a nationwide campaign to send donated dools out to Africa, and the event on Saturday morning was to help finance containers to transport the tools in.

Organiser Peter Munnery, who held the coffee morning with wife Marilyn,

said: "We collected tools throughout the nation, and they are all sent to a refurbishment depot in Ipswich. They are then containerised and sent out to Africa where they are much needed, and there are even knitting machines and sewing machines going out to the ladies. It is all to help them earn a living.

"We usually do very well here - we hold these events in summer in the garden but we thought we would do an extra one in the church to try and raise a few more funds.

"We have been very well supported - we can't do it without. I will get a call from a lady will say that her husband has died and she has to clear the workshop, so I go over with my trailer and sort it out.

There is a lot of running around but it is worth it. The tools we send are worth more than money, because they can be used time and time again by the new owner. It is about helping people to make a living."