A SERVICE for young people opened its garden to the public to celebrate volunteering.

The Colchester and Tendring Youth Enquiry Service welcomed friends, supporters and patrons to celebrate community involvement in charity work.

YES was set up 31 years ago in Colchester and the service supports children and young people between 11 and 25.

They can get information, advice and counselling around emotional wellbeing and mental health, homelessness prevention and teenage pregnancy and young parent support work.

Musician Jade North volunteered to entertain the partygoers which included Colchester mayor Nick Cope and his wife, Elizabeth, deputy mayor Beverley Oxford and long-serving patron Colchester High Steward Sir Bob Russell.