THE team from the Worcester Music Festival dropped into Acorns Children’s Hospice recently to gain an insight into the charity’s work.

Staff from the festival, which has chosen Acorns as its charity of the year, were given a tour of Acorns for the Three Counties on Bath Road

They saw first-hand how the money raised will benefit the charity’s work providing care for life limited and life threatened children and support for their families.

Anthony Robbins, Worcester Music Festival director, said: “It was so useful to get such an insight into the work of Acorns.

"We were privileged to see the incredible facilities and support the charity provides to local children and their families.

"We are blessed to have this facility on our doorstep.”

During the tour the visitors were shown the hospice multisensory room, extensive gardens and hydrotherapy pool where children receive water-based physiotherapy from specially trained hospice staff.

Mandie Fitzgerald, community fundraising manager at the hospice, said: “It was a fantastic afternoon showing the guys around the hospice and answering questions. "We rely on fundraising events like the festival to raise the nearly £10 million needed every year to provide our services so we’re very grateful to have been chosen as the Festival’s charity of the year.”

In the last year Acorns for the Three Counties has cared for more than 240 children and over 300 families, including those who are bereaved, from across Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire.

Now in its ninth year, Worcester Music Festival takes place from 16 to 18 September and will feature a wide variety of live music in multiple venues across the city.