A community minded club manager mingled with royalty at a Buckingham Palace garden party.

 

Jump WMC manager Andy Hodgkinson, 55, and wife Christine, 55, were invited to join the Queen, Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall and the Duchess of Cambridge in recognition of his community work with the club and charity Toc H.

 

Toc H began as a soldiers' club in Belgium during the First World War and promotes community spirit and acts of service to others.

 

Andy, of Allott Crescent, said: "It was marvellous and not what we're used to at all. For us to walk around Buckingham Palace and then out into this garden which was as big as most parks was amazing.

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"Kate was absolutely beautiful, radiant, and the Queen was looking marvellous as usual."