GARDEN centre staff dug deep to raise £10,000 for Yorkshire Air Ambulance.
Workers at Dean's Garden Centres, based at Scarborough and Stockton-on-the-Forest, near York, chose the ambulance as their charity for a year.
Money was raised by Christmas carol singing, donations from staff and customers, a charity football match and from the wishing wells at both garden centres.
Co-owner Richard Dean said: "Every year we ask staff to choose a charity, and this year they plumped for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance, which we all agreed was a very worthy cause, especially in a county the size of ours.
"The partners of the company, of which I am one, agreed to match the funds up to £4,000. This has resulted in a grand total of £10,080.05, which is a record for our annual fundraising efforts for charity."
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