A MAN whose dying father received end of life care from a home-based hospice has raised more than £5,000 for the charity.

Raymond Brown, along with a group of friends, rode coast to coast from Morecambe to Bridlington in aid of Herriot Hospice Homecare.

He also turned his 50th birthday party into a fundraiser for the charity, which provides care and support across Hambleton and Richmondshire.

Mr Brown, who runs his RW Brown Agricultural and Motor Engineer business in Carlton, near Leyburn, wanted to help Herriot after his father Les received care from the charity in 2012.

Les, who was suffering from advanced prostate cancer, was supported by nurses and carers from Herriot until he died at the age of 82.

“I was in awe and extremely thankful for the help Herriot Hospice Homecare gave to my father in the last weeks of his life,” said Mr Brown.

“The ladies floated in like angels three times a day tending to his needs and requirements, having all the care, compassion and kindness you could have asked from anyone. You could nearly set your clock by them, appearing whatever the weather.

“I sometimes see their cars outside other peoples’ houses when I am out and about during my travels and wonder about their situation, but I know that they are in the finest hands to receive the utmost care and dignity they could wish for their loved one.”