Appalling weather may have prevented Slough's Sadaqa Day going ahead on Sunday but it did not stop community groups from getting together to help others.

Sadaqa Day is a national event and the Stoke Poges Lane Mosque was due to be at the centre of good deeds including gardening, litter picking, giving refreshments to strangers and providing lunch to the elderly.

Heavy snow forced the event to be cancelled. But not to be deterred, the organisers fed the homeless outside St Mary's Church in Church Street instead.

They had all the volunteers they needed within easy reach without needing anyone to take an unneccessary risk by travelling on that day.

Meanwhile co-ordinator Raabia Akhter says a new date for the Sadaqa event will be announced in due course.