REAL ale afficionado Hans Hoffbauer was remembered when Swindon and North Wiltshire CAMRA members donated £635 to Wiltshire Wildlife Trust.

He was chairman of the branch between 2011 and 2014 and following his death last year organisers of the 30th Swindon Beer Festival decided to make the trust their nominated charity.

Some of the cash will be spent on looking after one of its nature reserves in the centre of Swindon and part of it will be used for an orchard project in Devizes.

Branch secretary Richard James said: “Every year we support a local charity through the collection of unused tokens at the Festival. Hans was a member of Wiltshire Wildlife Trust for many years so we thought it would be appropriate this year to select them as our festival charity.”

# Neil Pullen, Wiltshire Wildlife Trust reserves manager, said: “We’d like to thank Swindon and North Wiltshire CAMRA for this generous donation to the Trust in memory of Hans. As Hans was a keen apple grower himself we have agreed with his partner that part of the donation should be put towards our orchard project in Devizes. The rest will be spent on the maintenance and upkeep of our Rivermead Nature Reserve in the centre of Swindon.”