A BEER and cider festival featuring a handmade market will take place for the Bank Holiday weekend.

The Lenches Club in Church Lench near Evesham is holding the festival with the handmade market on Monday as part of family day.

The event is free entry all weekend, with donations to the 70th anniversary refurbishment in 2018 welcome.

Beers and ciders are from local breweries, Pershore, Hook Norton, Purity, Boat Lane and Hogans to name a few.

There will be a disco on Sunday night and a live band on Monday evening, with the club open on Friday and Saturday for an open mic, jam session before the festival concludes with a firework display at 10pm on Monday.

The Lenches Club is a not for profit "members" club which is committee run.

It is the Lenches only drinking establishment, which started in an old Nissan hut in 1948. Original rules would not allow a public house, hence why we have members The Monday market has over 15 stalls, all local makers, growers and independent businesses, using locally sourced burgers and sausages for the barbecue.

The club will also support Worcester Royal Hospital neonatal premature baby unit through Jade Harding with Maggie and Violets Amazing Journey and Teenage Cancer Trust this year who will be having tombola stalls to raise money.