AMNESTY International is celebrating its most successful Busk for Amnesty event.

The tuneful fund raiser took place on Saturday, April 30 as part of the Malvern May Day celebrations raising £279 for the charity.

Throughout the day musicians performed at Lyttleton Well, on Church Street and outside Waitrose as a variety of folk ballads, Irish jigs and classic pop hits filled the town centre.

More than 70 letters were written and many more signatures added to petitions to politicians in Italy and East Europe about illegal forced evictions of Roma people in Rome and Hungary.

The group’s next event is a Golden Jamboree to celebrate the organisation’s 50th anniversary.

The event will be taking place at the Coach House Theatre, in Grange Road, at 7.30pm on Friday, May 13. It promises a varied mixture of entertainment, with comedy and soul from Men in General, music from Sue Black, Bethan Gauci, Catherine Howe and Vo Fletcher, and Ray Mytton.

More acts are still due to be announced and tickets, at £8, are available from the Books for Amnesty shop in Edith Walk.