A SUMMER fete which was cancelled six years ago due to a lack of funding will now go ahead after organisers secured a grant.

A total of £4,599 was awarded to the Joint Villages Fete Committee by the Coalfields Regeneration Trust.

It means the Joint Villages Summer Fete, hosted on the three greens between Dawlish Drive, Wellfield Road and Dividy Road in Bentilee, will go ahead this summer after it was scrapped in 2004.

This year's event, on August 15, will feature activities with a health theme and will also feature stalls from a range of community groups.

Event spokesman Ken Downs said: "All the members of the Joint Villages Fete Committee are delighted by news of our award, as this will be the first time we've been able to hold the event since 2004."

The first fete was held in 1999 and was set up with the aim of uniting communities on the Bentilee estate.

From then it ran until 2004, the year in which it received almost £3,000 in funding from Stoke-on-Trent's Neighbourhood Renewal Community Chest Fund.

Since then attempts to resurrect the event have been plagued by financial difficulties and interrupted by building work on the Bentilee Neighbourhood Centre in 2005.

The fete is set to include a mixture of live music, community fund-raising and Stanworths Funfair.

The fete's Treasurer, John Steele, said: "Our thanks go out to the Coalfields Regeneration Trust for making this event possible."

The fete on the three greens will open at noon and close by 4.30pm.