Dorchester Baptist Church marked Christian Aid Week with a breakfast event on Sunday.

The Big Brekkie saw volunteers serve up bacon rolls and continental style breakfasts, teas and coffees to congregation members and supporters, raising funds for Christian Aid.

The event also included a fun breakfast-theme quiz. Copies of the Dorchester and District Christian Aid group's recipe book, Cooking for Life, were also available.

Other local events for Christian Ad Week have included an ecumenical service at St Peter's Church on Sunday with guest speaker, the Reverend Martin John Nicholls, from Devon, as well as house-to-house collections. A street collection will also be held in South Street on Friday, May 19.

The theme of this year's Christian Aid Week is how soaring costs are affecting people both in the UK and around the world.

It looks specifically at family life in Malawi, where food, fuel, fertiliser and school fees have doubled in price in the past 12 months. Hard-working farmers are seeing their harvests fail as the climate crisis brings increasingly erratic weather.

For example, the impact of the recent Cyclone Freddy in Malawi have been devastating. Floods have washed away crops and over 500,000 people have been displaced, with hundreds losing their lives.

Christian Aid is working with farmers to transform their livelihoods using the humble but mighty pigeon pea: a drought resistant, soil-revitalising, high-protein, low cost crop.

For more details or to support Christian Aid, visit https://www.christianaid.org.uk/