A PRESTATYN High pupil has been given a surprise boost for his first trip abroad in reward for his hard work as volunteer.

Sam Jones, who is a regular volunteer at Prestatyn Popin Centre as well as Cinema screenings at Rhyl Little Theatre, is off to Disneyland Paris with his school in February.

In a shock for Sam, was also a Chair and opened this year’s Wicked International Youth Film Festival, on his trip Pop In Centre Manager Jonathan White and Rhiannon Hughes of Wicked Wales surprised him with and envelop containing €100 and £100 towards the trip.

Ms Hughes said: "We try to provide expenses and training opportunities for our volunteers - without whose support we could not run our Community Cinemas or Film Festival - so when we heard Sam was off to Paris with the school, we wanted to support him and have been asking him to do extra work so that his expenses could build up to and he could make the most of his first international trip."