THE ORGANISERS of the Welsh Warrior Festival are preparing to hold the event again next year following its success.

Mrs Hazel Hunt told a Bryn Y Cwm Area Committee meeting that they are on notice to prepare for another festival after it raised £15,500 for The Richard Hunt Foundation.

Mrs Hunt said, "It was an enormous success, it was everything we could have wished to be.

"We have had so many nice comments come to us in person, telephone and Facebook telling us how well organised it was and how it had the right mix of music.

"We had our own security, it was well planned and well run which was all down to my committee.

"The Welsh Warrior beer brewed especially for us was so successful it is going to be marketed."

Mrs Hunt (pictured with her family at the recent festival) said Monmouthshire County Council's Recreation Officer Tim Bradfield commented how well the park was cleared and asked if a festival had indeed taken place.

Mrs Hunt also revealed there are plans for her to go to Chester with three other families who lost loved ones to meet the Queen although nothing has been agreed as yet.

The next step for the Foundation is to fund a jacuzzi bath for a soldier in the Queens Dragoon Guards who lost a lower part of his leg and is suffering severe phantom pains.

This follows £500 sent to the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Worthing and £500 to 20-year-old pregnant fiancee, Kelly Forrest, of Jonathan Burgess who was killed in Afghanistan whilst serving in the First Battalion of The Royal Welsh.

It is hoped the money will help Kelly with the expense of having a new baby.

Of the festival as a whole she said, "Richard would have been very proud."