**The first ever World Porridge Day is being staged on Sunday in aid of hungry children in developing countries.**Argyll-based charity Mary’s Meals has organised the event with Carrbridge - the Highland community behind the World Porridge Making Championship.
The competition will take place on the same day, with the winner receiving the coveted Golden Spurtle, or stirrer.
Outside of the UK, World Porridge Day events are planned in the US, France, Malawi, Bosnia and Sweden.
Mary’s Meals feeds the nutrient-rich maize-based porridge Likuni Phala to about 320,000 children in Malawi each year.
The charity said it hoped World Porridge Day would raise “vital funds and awareness” at a time when east Africa, one of its key operational areas, was “suffering from dire food shortages”.