Staff at a Blackburn based company, which suffered a devastating fire have raised a staggering £11,000 for local charities.

Teams from Coolkit have been collecting funds for the town's Youth Zone and Nightsafe by completing Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge on the anniversary of a fire which decimated their premises.

Supported by other local businesses, customers and suppliers from around the UK, the CoolKit team tackled Pen-y-ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough recently.

CoolKit, which manufactures temperature-controlled van conversions with units in Blackburn and Burnley, pledged to match the £5,000 target to take the amount to almost £11,000.

The challenge came a year after the company suffered a devastating blaze at its warehouse in Burnley. 

Managing director, Daniel Miller, said: “I am so proud of the team for their effort.

"All of us at CoolKit are so grateful for everyone’s generous donations. They truly were the fuel to our engine on the 10-hour journey.

“The weekend was the first anniversary of perhaps the darkest days in CoolKit’s history and to mark it with a show of another kind of resilience was a real testament to all of our people.

“Special mention must go to our head of people Georgina Grice who conquered a serious fear of heights to climb Pen-y-ghent’s notorious scramble and to Hollie George who, despite injuring her foot early on was determined to get over Whernside.”