One of Tenby’s Cancer Research Shop volunteers has given the charity a New Year boost after presenting them with a cheque for over £1,000 - following an annual festive Christmas cake sale.

Maureen Lower MBE a volunteer at the Tenby shop located at Tudor Square has been making and selling real traditional Christmas cakes to aid various charities for the past 27 years.

Over the festive period, she set about once again making and selling her own traditional Christmas cakes, baking 148 in total all, with marzipan, icing and decorations - this time raising a whopping one thousand and thirty pounds for the charity, bringing the total Maureen had raised over the last four years since she has resided in the area to £3,300.

A native of Birmingham, Maureen, who lived in Berlin for 42 years, and now resides in Kilgetty, was awarded the MBE from Her Majesty the Queen in 2003 for her volunteering work, and the German Medal of Merit.

After bringing a group of 34 elderly and people with disabilities over to Tenby from Berlin on holiday as part of her volunteering work, eight years ago, Maureen fell in love with Tenby and it’s surrounding area and decided that it was where she would like to live if and when she returned home to the UK.

She headed back to Berlin once again towards the end of last year where she sold 34 Christmas cakes to all her regular customers towards the total she raised, to add to what she raised locally.

“I would like to thank everyone involved - those that bought the cakes and also those that contributed in helping to make the cakes,” she said.

“I would also like to thank Bindi Johnson the manageress of Tenby Cancer Research UK shop for her great support in sales of the cakes, and also after working a full day in the shop she would come around and help with marzipan, icing and decorating the cakes, which was a great help!” continued Maureen.

Thanks from Maureen goes to the following: JRJ FRames in Tenby for cake bases; Adrian of Upton Farm, Pembroke dock for marzipan; Sharon Bevans of Tesco in Pembroke Dock (£40); Suzanne and Jason Sallam of the Antiques shop in Tenby (£50); Ann Maggs, Tenby (£15); Sabine Mullis, Berlin (£15); Jewson in Tenby who donated for the cake bases; Helen Reynolds from Cancer Research UK, for providing most ingredients; Deutsche Bundestag customers and regular customers in Berlin; my true customers in Tenby and also England.

On World Cancer Day which is held on February 4, the Tenby Cancer Research UK shop on Tudor Square will be hosting a home baked cake stand sale between 10 am and 4 pm, to help raise more funds for the cause.

Maureen is already taking orders for her next batch of Christmas cakes, with six regulars already putting in for an order, and three sizes available - 18cm, 12 cm, and s small cake. If you would like to contact her please call 07967222939.