Morris dancers at the Ely Folk Festival raised hundreds of pounds for charity.

Ely Standard: Rockingham Rapper. Charity collection during the Ely Folk Festival.Rockingham Rapper. Charity collection during the Ely Folk Festival. (Image: Archant)

The Ely Morris Dancers raised £649.74 on behalf of local charities ,Home Start and the Lisa Barnes Memorial Trust, which supports the Arthur Rank Hospice.

Rockingham Rapper, a Morris side which comes from Peterborough, raised £164.51 while Gog Magog from Cambridge collected £107.58.

The Ely Folk Festival committee have sent a huge thankyou to everybody who contributed and enjoyed the spectacle of Morris dancers performing around the city.