A sugarcraft group in Stowmarket has helped raise £10,000 for charity - by making more than 100 Christmas cakes.

Stowmarket Sugarcraft Club has continued its fundraising efforts for a fourth time by making 117 Christmas cakes and selling them, with all proceeds going to St Elizabeth Hospice.

Starting their efforts in 2019, the group have been making Christmas cakes every year in order to raise money, with their total now sitting at £31,147 over the four Christmases.

Glenda Price, chairman of the club, said: "We wanted to show what we could do with the community and we were talking about fundraisers we could do.

"So I suggested we ask St Elizabeth Hospice whether we could display our work in their shop window in Stowmarket and they can sell the cakes and keep the money.

East Anglian Daily Times: The money was handed over this week, with £10,000 raisedThe money was handed over this week, with £10,000 raised (Image: Allen Blasdell)

"Initially they weren't sure who would buy a cake from the hospice shop, so we only made 39 that year, but we raised around £3,000."

In 2020, the group raised £8,000, and last year, they raised £10,000.

Mrs Price said: "It's not something that happens to me, but it's left me speechless how much we have raised.

"I am hugely proud of all at the club and their efforts to get this done and raise this money."

The club, established in 1995, currently has 14 members, with around 12 people making the cakes before the start of October.

East Anglian Daily Times: The cheque being written outThe cheque being written out (Image: Allen Blasdell)

This allowed Mrs Price time to get all the cakes labelled and delivered to the hospice.

The total raised by the cakes this year was over £4,000, with the total upped to £10,000 by Woolpit-based company, Precon Products.

A celebration at the hospice to hand over the money was attended by the town mayor and consort, councillors, Barry and Heather Salmon, Michael Philpot, managing director of Precon Products, the hospice shop staff and two members of the fundraising team at the hospice.

Mrs Price said: "We will continue to do this, help us, help the hospital.

"You don't know if you will need them, and they need all the funding they can get."