ONE of Yorkshire’s most famous tea rooms is to raise money for a charity which provides hospice care to people in their homes.

Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms in Northallerton has selected Herriot Hospice Homecare as its charity for 2015 and staff are hoping to raise thousands of pounds for the organisation. Any money raised will be matched, pound for pound by Bettys and Taylors of Harrogate, which owns the six Bettys tea rooms in Yorkshire.

Amanda Main, assistant front of house manager at Northallerton, said: “Herriot Hospice was chosen to be our branch charity by members of our staff - many of whom have benefited from the service that it provides our local community.

“They do an amazing job and it’s our way of saying thank you. Over the next year we have many events and challenges planned including a bingo night, a quiz night, and have already held a beetle drive to get our fundraising off to a brilliant start.”

Karen Wilkinson-Bell, chief executive of Herriot Hospice Homecare, said: “We are an organisation which is wholly dependent on donations to enable us to provide our services, so to have such a well-known brand as Bettys raising money for us in 2015 is fantastic.

“We are looking forward to seeing what fundraising schemes staff come up with over the course of 2015 and, alongside our own initiative, we are hoping this will be our best fundraising year ever.”