STAFF and customers at Asda, Rawtenstall, have raised £7,122 for their adopted charity, Rossendale Hospice.

Over the year, quiz nights, selling food at Rossendale Valley Motorbike Show and in-store raffles have boosted funds.

£2,600 being used to buy a hoist for use at the hospice when moving patients from wheelchairs to armchairs.

The remaining money was presented to hospice chairman Dorothy Mitchell by Malcolm Teens who has just moved from the store in Rawtenstall to the company's Farnworth store.

The chairman said: "All the staff at Rawtenstall have really got behind the hospice during the past year. The amount they have raised is absolutely wonderful."

Asda are continuing to support the hospice's Penny Pinching appeal with a pick up and drop off point for boxes. The hospice says operating costs would be covered if everyone in Rossendale donated just a penny a day.

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