LAST year a dedicated team of volunteers worked around the clock to organise Lib Fest and raise thousands of pounds in Liberty Baker’s memory.

Planning has already started for next year’s event and this time a documentary team will be on hand to track the team as they organise the event.

It is hoped the documentary will help raise awareness and engage more local people to make the festival even better.

Organiser Mike Dove has teamed up with Carterton-based filmmaker Chris Joynes, who hopes to start filming early next year.

Mr Dove said: “It was something we wanted to do but we were not able to logistically for the first Lib Fest.

“We want to make a documentary based on the whole planning phase right through to the event itself.

“I spoke to Chris Joynes, who I have worked with before and he will be coming to some of the planning meetings and will interview family and friends of Liberty, culminating on the day of the festival. It will be for the people of Witney.

“Lib Fest is just becoming huge. We thought this year was good but next year is going to be fantastic.

“We have got an amazing team in place.”

Next year’s Lib Fest takes place on Saturday, June 25, and it is hoped the film will be shown at Cineworld in Witney in July.

The event was organised after 14-year-old Liberty was killed when she was hit by a car as she walked to school in Curbridge Road on June 30, 2014.

The day of live music, which also featured a fun run and other activities, was held on June 27 in The Leys and raised £11,000 for road safety and child bereavement charities.

Amateur filmmaker Mr Joynes said he was delighted to be involved.

The 24-year-old Topps Tiles employee said: “I am really looking forward to getting my teeth into it.

“I am still in the planning process at the moment.

“I am meeting up with Mike and the other organisers next week for our first proper meeting. We have spoken about the outline so we are in the very early stage of the storyboard.

“I want to do it right.”

Mr Joynes added: “I think the earliest we will start filming will be the end of January or earlier February 2016.

“Work takes up a lot of my time but on my free days, I will be setting aside my time for Lib Fest.”

The event in June attracted 3,000 people but Mr Dove has said he is hopeful of doubling that number in 2016.

The second incarnation of the festival will raise money for bereavement charity SeeSaw, the Thames Valley Air Ambulance and Chart, which aims to enrich the lives of young people in hospices.