BUSY bees from Asda Burnley will work this weekend by raising money to send a youngster on a Honeypot Holiday.

Store staff are hoping to raise £300 so that a deserving local child can enjoy a holiday in the Hampshire countryside.

It will involve a dress down day or they can turn up for work in fancy dress. There will be face painting, name the teddy, guess the number of Honeynut loops, tombola and other activities.

If they can raise the £300, a local child will be selected to go on a week's holiday to the Honeypot House, a property set in seven acres of countryside in the New Forest.

Store manager Steve Walsh, said: "Colleagues are set on being as busy as bees this Saturday and Sunday organising fund-raising activities."

Lisa Nelson, founder of the Honeypot, said she was delighted that Asda had chosen to support the charity, which provided much-needed respite holidays to children from across the country.

Many of the children who visited Honeypot House, she said, had never visited the countryside or seen the seaside, let alone had a holiday before.