The Red Cross Great Spring Garden Event proved it was just that - great! Nearly 1,300 attended the event earlier this year, raising just over £16,000 for the charity's work in Herefordshire.

1. At the cake stall (from left to right) are: Sue Vaughan, Jill Reynolds, Jane Williams and Annette Sosna.

2. Jane Watkins and Claire Davies, who organised the stalls, take a well-earned break in the sunshine.

3. Sue Davenport, Mary Carr and Sue Okell man the gate.

More money flowed in for the Red Cross after a jazz evening at Fawley Court, How Capel in June. Held by kind permission of Mrs J P Clay, it raised just over £4,500.

4. Left to right. Michael Burleigh, Gillie Bulmer (Chairman of Herefordshire Fund-raising committee) and Simon Snape.

5. Virginia Carlton, Nicola and Ray Mitchell, Paula Pope and Lorraine Shepherd

6. The Mayor of Hereford, Councillor Bob Preece, with the Mayoress Maureen Preece and Lt Sir Thomas Dunne at a cocktail party following the Sounding Retreat ceremony in Hereford in July.

7. Sir John Foley, High Sheriff of Herefordshire and Worcestershire, and Captain James Hereford.