AWARD winning ales and live music await crowds at the Sedgley Beer Festival.

The 1st Sedgley Scout Group festival team have been busy organising this weekend's event, which will also serve up an array of cider, wine and prosecco.

Every penny raised at the festival, which takes place at the Jubilee Scout Hall, will be split between the 1st Sedgley Scout Group, Children in Need and Compton Hospice.

The scouts will use its share of the proceeds to pay for a new roof and more adventurous activities for its 100 young people, aged between six and 18.

Drinkers will be entertained with toe-tapping live music, from Ben and Alun Davies, who will deliver a range of 60s, blues, folk, and classic rock numbers on Friday night (September 23).

The Sedgley Ukulele Strummers will join the line-up on Saturday afternoon (September 24), and the Starving Dogs will be the headline act and reel out Good Time Boogie and a wealth of other favourites and Status Quo classics during the evening.

Festival chairman, Ian Foster, said: “We are very excited with the amount interest in the beer festival. It is really satisfying tasting beers for good causes, and with so many local people turning up, everyone seems certain to meet old friends."

Entrance to the festival, which has been sponsored by JT Scratchings, Thursfields Solicitors and Midlands Business Recovery, costs £10 and includes drinks and a souvenir festival beer glass.

It will run from 5pm to 11pm on Friday and 12noon to 11pm on Saturday.