A Hampshire student nurse is drumming up support for a summer fun day which will help send her on a work a placement to a Romanian orphanage.

Shelby Small from Totton has organised the event which takes place at Headlands Farm, West Wellow on Saturday (June 13).

The 20-year old, who is studying to be a Learning Disability Nurse, will be working with the Life Foundation in the Romanian town of Oltania.

She will be going with two other students from her course at Hertfordshire University for a month from the end of August and needs to raise £1,500 to cover the cost of the trip.

“I have a very supportive friendly family and they have been brilliant at rallying round to help me raise the money,” said Shelby.

Shelby’s father Max, who is from the Caribbean island of St Vincent, is a member of the Harbour Lites steel band and will be running a steel drum workshop at the event. Her grandmother Gloria will be keeping up the West Indian theme by serving up home-cooked Caribbean food.

Other attractions at the fete include face painting, a crafts stall, biscuit decorating, a tug o’ war and traditional games and races like the egg and spoon, sack race and three-legged race. There will be a raffle with prizes including family tickets to the New Forest Wildlife Park and Cineworld.

Shelby, a former student at Redbridge Community School and Barton Peveril College, has wanted to work with people with learning disabilities since undertaking work experience as a 16-year-old at the Hampshire Riding Therapy Centre in Eastleigh.

Saturday’s event runs from 11am to 4pm. Headlands Farm is off Romsey Road near Wellow Primary School.