DIDCOT’s charity ball raised £1,800 to be given to the Mayor’s charities.

The Didcot Civic Ball saw 136 guests sit down to a five-course meal and dance to live music from Oxford covers band The Limitations at the Civic Hall in Britwell Road on February 28.

Money raised will go to the chosen charities of the Mayor of Didcot, Councillor Axel Macdonald, – bomb disposal charity the Felix Fund and parent and carer charity the Balsam Family Project.