A Quilting Bee is being held at fabric shop Quilting For You on Saturday July 8 to make quilts for the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire.

Organiser Dawn Bradfield is hoping that many people bring 6" or 12" blocks of material to donate while she and fellow crafters and knitters put the pieces together.

Quilt tops and finished quilts can also be brought along to help the cause, or you can volunteer to help cut, pierce and press the fabric.

Dawn said: "These are quilts handmade with love, they're something new we made to help the victims move forward through their grief and on with their lives."

The fabric shop kindly offered Dawn and her friends the room for the day at no cost. Dawn explained how the operation will work.

She said: "The quilts will be picked up and sent to a depot in Wolverhampton before they're delivered to London, where the Red Cross will distribute them to the victims.

"Any we have left over will go to the first responders and the rest will go to Project Linus, which helps sick children.

"The courier Carillion is doing the shipping for free and they'll be distributing the quilts in late August after the emergency donations have come in from other charities.

"It's an international effort, the first quilt in the depot came from Australia!"

The Quilting Bee will last from 10am to 3.30pm.

Grenfell Tower went up in flames on Wednesday June 14, causing dozens of families to be trapped in a towering inferno and those that escaped were left traumatised and homeless.

The death toll is currently presumed to be at 80, though the final toll will not be known until the end of the year.