ENGLAND were yet to win the World Cup and the Cold War was raging when Enid Treneer first signed up as a volunteer with Oxfam in Dorchester in the early 1960s.

Forty-nine years later she is still going strong and colleagues at the charity shop threw a surprise party to celebrate her 93rd birthday and recognise her contribution to the organisation.

Enid, who works two half days a week at the South Street store, said she still enjoyed giving up her time to help at Oxfam after all these years.

She said: “I have loved it, that’s why I still come.

“It’s somewhere I have had happy times and I would advise anybody to come and give a hand because it’s marvellous.

“The people are everything – they are what make it so special.”

Enid, who has lived in Dorchester all her life, said working at the shop had changed dramatically since she first joined the old Oxfam store in High East Street.

She said: “When I started we didn’t have a till and there was just a basin that we kept the money in.”

Enid said her admiration for Oxfam’s work was the reason for her joining and has inspired her to keep lending a hand for the charity. She said: “I like Oxfam for the work they do everywhere.

“They are always so quick with supplying water abroad and they are always there first.”

Store manager Margaret Brayshaw was full of praise for her longest serving volunteer.

She said: “She’s a very important member of the team and when we are short of volunteers, she will always come in and sit by the till and deal with customers.”