MEMBERS of Worcester Lions Club decorated a tree at a Worcester church with an unusual item for a good cause.

Instead of lights, baubles or tinsel the main decoration of the club's Christmas tree at St John-in-Bedwardine Parish Church, was used spectacles.

The tree was part of the church's annual Christmas tree festival that features both artificial and real trees decorated by groups across the city, helping to raise money for St Richard's Hospice and the church.

The Lions Club's unusual theme was chosen as recycling used glasses is a major project run by the Lions Clubs of the British Isles and Ireland.

Collected glasses' lenses are removed, repolished and classified according to prescription, then sent to be reused in Sight Projects around the world.

The frames are also recycled with the money raised also going to sight saving projects.

Geoff Lewis, from Worcester Lions Club, said: "In a speech at a Lions convention in 1925, Helen Keller who herself was blind and deaf, issued a challenge to Lions worldwide to become "Knights of the Blind in the Crusade against Darkness" and to work towards the alleviation of preventable blindness.

"This is only part of the work that the Worcester club are doing to help meet this challenge."

For more details about the club visit worcesterlionsclub.org.uk, email worcester@lions105m.org.uk or call 0845 833 5926.