A star-studded line up of celebrities will grace the stage in Windsor this weekend for an evening of entertainment in aid of charity.

Britain’s Got Talent winner Paul Potts, Birds of a Feather’s Lesley Joseph, television stage and screen actress Rula Lenska, television and pop star Anita Harris, actress Lorraine Chase and West End star Marti Webb are among the glitzy line up who will perform at the Class Act gala at the Theatre Royal Windsor on Sunday.

All proceeds from the gala will go to Mane Chance Sanctuary, a charity that rescues and rehabilitates old, abused and abandoned horses.

Leading British actress, Jenny Seagrove, founded Mane Chance Sanctuary in 2011 and regularly holds events and galas to raise money to keep the charity running.

She said: “This is the first year that I haven’t been involved in the running of the gala, but I have seen the line up and it is absolutely fantastic.

“There’s going to lots of wonderful music from great artists and of course we have a lovely brass band and gospel choir.

“It will raise the roof; it will be a terrific evening and it is going to be a great big party.”

Class Act will be hosted by much-loved entertainer and astrologer Russell Grant and will be joined on stage by icon of screen and stage Bo Derek.

Jenny will also join the glitzy line up on stage, performing the Mane Chance charity single with Peter Howarth from The Hollies.

“We will sing that song together and get everyone else on stage to sing with us and hopefully we will take the roof off with that.

“Singing and I are an uneasy bedfellow, I get very nervous so it will be very frightening but hopefully we will go out with a bang.”

Jenny is certain the audience will have a great evening, mostly because she has complete trust in director and choreographers Carole Todd and Paul Ferris.

“I'm incredibly grateful to Carole and Paul, I think they are amazing. Carole is absolutely wonderful and I have nothing but total admiration for Paul. He has created and organised this show and he has done an amazing job.

“The only thing I said to them before organising this show was you cannot do is run it for four hours like other galas do; it has to be like a normal evening show. So we have got a fantastic line up who will sing one or two songs each, there’s a lot of content in the show.”

Despite being completely committed to running the sanctuary, Jenny admits she never intended to start up a charity.

“I never wanted to run a charity. A girl I knew was running a sanctuary and she was struggling. The animals hadn’t been fed for days and she couldn’t cope because times were hard during the recession.

“I just couldn’t let the horses be put down so I inherited 60 animals and I had to find somewhere for them to go, so I started up the Mane Chance Sanctuary.

“I didn’t want it but now I have got it, it has turned into something very special.”

The running of the sanctuary is a community effort, according the Jenny, which makes events like Class Act all the more important.

She said: “It costs us £180,000 a year to run the sanctuary, so it’s a real community effort to keep it going. We’re very lucky to have the support of these wonderful artists.

“They’re going to have a great evening. The Theatre Royal is a beautiful venue, a stone’s throw away from the castle and Windsor is just such a lovely town, it’s a very romantic place.”

To find out more information about the work that Mane Chance Sanctuary do, visit www.manechancesanctuary.org.

Class Act comes to the Theatre Royal Windsor on Sunday, March 8 at 7.30pm.

Tickets are on sale now priced from £13 to £35, with all proceeds going to Mane Chance Sanctuary. To book or for further information please contact the Box Office on 01753 853888 or visit www.theatreroyalwindsor.co.uk.