MINEHEAD music teacher Bev Trimmings’ family had not heard about the Hope for Tomorrow charity or the ‘Bumble Bus’, its local mobile chemotherapy unit.

But then Bev’s mother was diagnosed with cancer and was offered treatment on the bus just five minutes from home.

“It made an enormous difference as it saved the journey to and from Musgrove Park Hospital,” Bev said. “And the atmosphere on the bus created by the staff made it easier to cope with the treatment.”

To show the family’s thanks and increase awareness of the charity, Bev and her music students gave an autumn concert to a capacity audience at St Andrew’s Church, Minehead, on October 18.

Last Saturday they returned to St Andrew’s when £700 raised by the concert was presented to the charity’s representative Rachel Johnstone.

The money will go toward’s Bumble’s upkeep and enable the service to continue to take cancer treatment closer to patients.

Among those present was Hilary May, the first patient to be treated on board Bumble in 2010 and now a Hope for Tomorrow ambassador.

Bev’s students included saxophonists Daria Zaronna, Callum Shattock, Chris Tideswell and, also playing trombone, Bob Corrick; clarinetists Masie Lyddon, Laura Hart, Isabella Peach, Rosie Seddon and Jack Shattock; recorder player Rachael Mackie and Ben Hart on drums.

Pictured from the left are Anne Shaw, Bridget Capewell, Hilary May, Bev Trimmings, Rachel Johnstone, Meigan Lyons and Jeanette Foster.

Photo: Paul Scullion