A churchgoer has turned St Paul’s Cathedral into a load of rubbish to raise awareness about buying Fairtrade.

Mum-of-two Amanda Hughes built the 8ft by 4ft replica of Sir Christopher Wren’s renowned Cathedral using old Fairtrade wrappers collected by the congregation at St-Mary-at-Finchley’s Church in Hendon Lane.

Miss Hughes, of Grove Avenue, Finchley, said: “As a church we’re very keen on Fairtrade so we decided to make a visual aid to help promote it.

“I help out at the church, so when I was asked to volunteer and make the sculpture I thought why not – I’ll give it a go.”

Over several months she painstakingly glued together everything from chocolate wrappers and biscuit packets to tea and coffee boxes, flower bags and wine labels.

The finished model comes complete with cardboard people looking admiringly at the masterpiece, as well as a knitted Bishop of London standing on the Cathedral’s steps.

Miss Hughes’ creation was given pride of place in St Paul’s Cathedral before being carefully transported to St-Mary-at-Finchley for a Fairtrade tea party on Saturday.

The event had an Alice and Wonderland theme with donations being collected for The Fairtrade Foundation which aims to promote better prices, decent working conditions and local sustainability for farmers and workers in developing countries.