BURNHAM-ON-SEA community groups have benefitted from nearly £13,000 of funding donated by Moose Lodge 123 and Burnham-On-Sea Ladies Circle.

At a special presentation on Thursday, April 26 an impressive £5,631 was donated by the Ladies' to the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance with the Moose brothers handing over £246.

Dementia support group Music For The Memory also benefitted from £750 from the Ladies' alongside a personal donation of £50 from one of the Moose members.

More than £900 went to Children in Need, £190 to the Friends of Burnham Memorial Hospital and cheques for £150 were handed over to the Friends of Marine Cove, In Charley's Memory, Parkinson's Support Group and the Fibromyalgia Support Group.

Moose governor Ron Fisher handed over the reins to successor Jim Dolan, whose chosen charity for the coming year will be ‘Cots for Tots’.

Likewise Ladies' Circle president Yvonne Cornelius officially passed on the role to Pat Burge, who will nominate a charity for the ladies to support in the near future.

The presentations were followed by a plentiful and tasty cold buffet supper catered for by the Ladies' Circle catering team.

See online for the full gallery of presentations at burnhamandhighbridgeweeklynews.co.uk.