REDDITCH Lions have already donated thousands of pounds to worthwhile causes this year and hope to help more people with Fun in the Field next month.

The free annual event takes place at the Neville Arms, Astwood Bank on Saturday, July 15 from 1-5pm.

Entertainment provisionally booked includes Daisy the Cow and her Cow Flop Competition, Hospital Radio Pulse, a children's disco, donkey rides, music and laser shooting. For more details, visit www.funinthefield.org.uk

Proceeds will go to Andy's Fund, for schoolboy Andy Perrygrove, Acorns Child-ren's Hospice and welfare projects.

The Lions have already raised £1,000 for Andy's Fund this year. Andy, from Alvechurch, was in collision with a van after getting off his school bus in 2004. He survived but suffered major brain injuries.

The fund was set up so his family could raise enough money to adapt his home to make it more comfortable and easier for him to live in.

The second Lions' project was helping a five-year-old Feckenham girl who has Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome and hereditary sensory motor neuropathy. She has speech and muscular co-ordination problems and is fed nightly through a stomach tube.

Her specialist recommended a garden tower and climbing frame would help enormously with limb co-ordination and mobility. The family raised £500 towards the total £1,500 cost.

A Lions spokesman said: "After visiting the family and being captivated by the little girl, the club made up the rest of the cost.

"The equipment is in place and we've been told is being enjoyed by other disabled children.

"It was really heart-warming to see the little girl getting so much pleasure in discovering new things she could do. It makes the whole business we're involved in worthwhile."

A third donation was made to the Craig Evans Fund. The fund was set up to buy Craig, who had Muscular Spinal Atrophy, a power wheelchair. Sadly, Craig died before he could use his wheelchair but the fund remains going strong to help other youngsters with serious disabilities.

When he died, the Lions were offered their money back but refused as they knew others would benefit from it.