A charity supporting bereaved children and young people has been awarded a grant by BBC Children in Need.

The Noah's Ark Trust as been given £25,957 towards the salary of its child and family bereavement manager for the next two years.

Lady Rachel Coventry, director and chairman of the trustees, said they were delighted with the grant.

"It's a lot of money, not as much as we asked for, but beggars can't be choosers," she said.

The charity, formed two years ago and based in Earls Croome, near Upton, helps children and their families who have suffered from the death of a close relative.

They run weekend residential camps at Malvern Hills Outdoor Centre, where children can share feelings and thoughts with those who have suffered a similar experience.

"We're coming to the end of our second year now and it's going very well," said Lady Coventry.

"We did two camps last year but we had to cancel the August camp this year because it would have stretched our human resources too much.

"We plan to hold the next one on the 28th and 29th of October and we hope to have a full camp of 25 children.

"It's always a struggle to find the money and until we get core funding of three years grant money we shall continue to struggle.

"Most of our money is raised purely by local fundraisers and each year they raise more than £20,000 which is brilliant.

"I've worked out that volunteers donate £15,000 worth of their time to us every year!"

Lady Coventry said that the Trust has helped a lot of families to cope with their grief since it set up in 1998.

"Our users always say that without this charity they wouldn't have got through and their family would be in tatters," she said.

The next big fundraiser is a Sotheby's dinner and auction at Croome Court on Saturday, September 23.

For further details and tickets, call 01684 592750.