VINTAGE china and homemade cakes and bunting are to be brought out for a fund-raising tea party.

The event in Rosedale East, near Pickering, has been organised by resident Sue Procter.

She is raising money for a centre for orphans and street children, which she visited whilst on holiday in India.

Mrs Procter visited India with her husband, Graham, to mark their retirement from running The Orange Tree spa guesthouse in Rosedale. Since their return earlier this year, Mrs Procter has been fund-raising for the centre.

“The orphanage is run by one man who gets the children off the streets. It’s one room and he looks after at least 40 children in there, it’s where they sleep, eat and play,” she said.

“A lot of the children end up on the streets because their parents might get involved with alcohol or drugs and send their children out to beg on the streets. If the child comes back with no money, often their parents beat them up.

“There was one little girl who was at least nine-year-old, but she had been beaten so badly on her head she couldn’t talk. She sat on Graham’s knee and when he looked away to talk to someone else she would grab his head to look back at him.”

Mrs Procter has already raised £300 for the El Shaddai charity, which administers the orphanage, by providing complementary therapy treatments in return for donations.

The Vintage Tea Party and sale of homemade crafts will take place at Rosedale Reading Room, Rosedale East, on Sunday, November 20 at 2pm.

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