More than 70 Bay supporters of locally based charity Animals Worldwide, founded by Suzy Gale, gathered at Hampton Primary School on Saturday to raise funds in support of the organisation’s work.

AW, a registered national charity, was created as a grant-making organisation designed to support small animal rescue centres around the globe and in its first year of operation has made ten grants including funds to assist with the rebuilding of the Animal House Shelter (which cares for abandoned goats, horses, dogs and cats) following the hurricane that devastated Jamaica, support for an international veterinary care group working with strays and providing educational services in India and, closer to home, providing money to assist a small dog rescue shelter in the Midlands that takes dogs from the police pound.