AS a crafts group based in the Three Counties you know you are succeeding when you receive membership enquiries from Glasgow.

That is what has happened with one local group, which will show off its wares in Malvern's Lyttelton Rooms on Saturday, April 5.

Crafts in Action, which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, is described by Upton-based secretary Christine Gledhill as "a co-operative of craftspeople".

She said: "We work within the criteria that members must all have made themselves the goods they sell. We don't allow bought-in goods or franchising."

The group currently has 24 full members and a similar number of "guests".

They come from far and wide, with members travelling from Leominster, Bosbury and Cheltenham, as well as Solihull, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire.

Then comes the membership application from Glasgow and one other from Dover.

"Our details are in a craft workers' yearbook and a lot of people want to be associated with making their own products," explained Mrs Gledhill.

"We generally get a good range of high quality crafts for the public to purchase," she said.

The fair will be open from 9.30am to 4.30pm. Hand-made crafts to be sold will include gem stone jewellery, decoupage goods, as well as Mrs Gledhill's jams.