Parents who bought bargain baby items at a nearly-new sale helped raise more than £1,300 for charity.

Baby clothes, toys and equipment changed hands at Sittingbourne Community College last Saturday.

About 250 people attended. Volunteers sold the items on behalf of sellers who get to keep up to 70% of what they made.

The rest of the proceeds went to the organisers, the Swale branch of the National Childbirth Trust (NCT).

The charity provides face-to-face support to parents, as well as funding national helplines, breastfeeding counselling, training antenatal and postnatal teachers and many more services.

Branch coordinator Tracey Stevens said: “It went well although we took a little below what we usually make. Last time the charity made about £3,000.

“We usually have about 40 stalls but this time we had 22 - we didn’t have as many volunteers to run them.”

• To sell your unwanted baby goods, or to register your interest in becoming a volunteer, email nns@nctswale.org. For general information visit www.nctswale.org