HOW could you say no to this face?
Three-year-old Florence Gladwin wants you to go to Dorchester this Sunday to help lay a mile of pennies around the village’s historic abbey for Calais refugees.
The fundraising stunt was the idea of parishioner Denise Line, who was moved by the pictures on television news and newspaper front pages.
Starting at 11.30am – directly after the abbey’s harvest service on Sunday morning – local families will start laying coins in the chancel.
The procession will continue down the aisle and, hopefully, around the rest of the building.
If they reach their target of a mile of pennies, it will circle the abbey 19 times. Canon Sue Booys, rector of Dorchester Abbey, said: “Our mile of coins will be a small representation of the journey that these people have travelled to find a better life.”
The money collected will be donated to Save the Children’s Child Refugee Crisis appeal.
Staff at Barclays Bank in Wallingford have already offered to help count the money.
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