DREAM up an unusual tea party idea for Hospiscare?s Tea at Three campaign and you could be drinking tea for free for a whole year.

Hospiscare is asking people in the Okehampton area to join in with their new nationwide Tea at Three campaign and hold a tea party at 3pm on Friday, June 20. The most unusual tea party idea will win a year?s supply of tea ? that?s 1,095 bags!

Cathy Debenham, Hospiscare?s head of fundraising and communications, said: ?Ask your friends, family or colleagues to make a donation for tea and biscuits in your home, garden or work.

?And if you want to win a year?s supply of tea then try to think of a really wacky tea-party idea. Why not change roles and make the boss the tea-lady for the afternoon?

?Or how about offering a chance to try different kinds of teas? See if you can taste the difference between jasmine, green or fruit teas. You could even have ?g and ts?. But you must remember to ask people to make a donation to join in!?

The Tea at Three event, co-ordinated by the national hospice charity Help the Hospices, will raise money for local hospice care.

Hospiscare supports people with life-threatening illness and their relatives and carers. Its care is tailored to individuals needs, enabling people to make the most of their lives within the limitations of their illness.

Hospiscare serves the area from Okehampton in the west through Tiverton and Exeter to Axminster and Seaton in the east.

Hospiscare community nurses provide specialist care and practical support to people in their own homes.

Hospiscare?s work costs £2.4-million a year. A quarter is funded by the National Health Service, the rest is raised by the local community.

Those inventive tea-party ideas should be sent to Hospiscare, Dryden Road, Exeter EX2 5JJ by June 3.

For more information about Tea at Three contact Eve MacFarlane at Hospiscare, tel: 01392 688021.