NOT quite the Rosetta space mission but at least it brought out the crowds when a giant green welly landed at the Worcester offices of law firm Harrison Clark Rickerbys.

The three metre tall boot was on a tour of HCR's offices in Cheltenham, Hereford, Ross-on-Wye and Worcester as part of a campaign to raise awareness of the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution’s annual Welly Week campaign.

Staff also sported their wellies along with their office attire to raise money for the national farming charity, which provides support to those in difficulty within the farming community. The effort raised raised £400 for the charity, which has made grants of more than £25,000 already this year to support farming families in Gloucestershire facing financial difficulty as a result of flooding, disease or personal crises.

Mary Wathen, senior associate in Harrison Clark Rickerbys' agriculture and rural affairs team, said: "This was an ambitious challenge but we really wanted to help raise awareness of the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution and their fantastic Welly Week campaign. We are delighted to have raised £400 for such a worthwhile cause."

Jenni Thompson, R.A.B.I. regional manager south central, added;:"We really appreciate the efforts that Harrison Clark Rickerbys and Green Farm Seeds, who sponsored the welly, have gone to in order to help raise awareness of our annual Welly Week campaign and are very grateful to them for their donation. One quarter of farming families in the UK live on or below the poverty line but with the support of groups like Harrison Clark Rickerbys and Green Farm Seeds we really hope that this year’s Welly Week will go a long way towards helping give poverty in farming the boot."