Staff at The Millbrook Garden Company have presented a cheque for more than £2,000 to its Charity of the Year.
The company, which has garden centres in Gravesend and Highgrove in Kent and Crowborough, East Sussex, donated £2,103.41 to chYps Children's Hospice at Home (the Children and Young Peoples' Service of EllenorLions Hospices).

Said Millbrook managing director Tammy Woodhouse: "We raised the money through our events and collection boxes during 2013. I also took part in a sponsored chilli dip in March. I swam in a freezing swimming pool and managed to raise £970 for chYps."

She added: "We would like to thank all our customers who donated any money throughout the year. chYps is such a worthy cause as it provides full hospice care for children at home. We have also decided to continue supporting the charity in 2014."

The charity is one of only a very few acute services providing oncology and end-of-life care to children in the home, and its services extend across the whole of west Kent.