Rotarian Philip Hurt, president of Kirkby Rotary Club, presented a cheque for £1,460 to Denis Tulley, chief executive of Emmanuel House, the Nottingham shelter for the homeless.

The money was raised through a charity sleep-out in Kirkby plaza last December, when Rotarians, students and teachers from Ashfield School, students from Kirkby College Academy, and members of local churches spent the night outdoors equipped with only a plastic sheet, a sleeping bag and a cardboard box.

Guest speakers at the meeting were Ollie Hynd, Paralympic triple gold medal swimmer, and Carol Hallam, team leader of Ashfield Community Wellbeing, a volunteer at the Rio Paralympics where she was athlete services manager and organiser for the wheelchair rugby teams.

Pictured are Rotarians Pam Thompson, Eric Thompson and Kate Hurt, Denis Tulley, Philip Hurt, and Lucy Edwards and Richard Edwards. Lucy, the current Outstanding Miss Mansfield Teen, was one of those who took part in the sleepout.