A SEA of coppers covered the flagstones of Dorchester Abbey on Sunday in a one-of-a-kind collection for refugee families.

The Mile for Migrants project featured scores of local people converging on the abbey, offering their loose change for Save the Children’s crisis appeal.

Altogether the coins made up £1,068 and they will all be donated to the nationwide charity. Pictured here with just some of the haul, the Reverend Sue Booys said: “We only had two weeks to organise it so we were delighted by the response.

“One elderly lady read about it in last week’s Oxford Mail and gave us her whisky-bottle collection of pennies she had been saving for years, and a little girl emptied her piggy bank .”

Along with the coins from Sunday’s event, £560 was donated from a collection at the Fellowship of St Birinus Service, honouring the effort put into the service by local people.

For more information on Save the Children’s Child Refugee Crisis Appeal visit savethechildren.org.uk/about-us/emergencies/child-refugee-crisis-appeal.