BETTYS & Taylors is serving a record-breaking treat to North Yorkshire charities following its most successful fundraising year ever.

The Harrogate-based tea, coffee, café and cake business has raised £100,367 – more than £20,000 above last year’s sum.

Staff at Bettys in St Helen’s Square and Bettys in Stonegate raised a combined £12,231 over the year for their chosen local charities – The Stroke Association and York MIND respectively.

Money-spinning activities at the St Helen’s Square café included raffles and selling homemade cakes on market stalls, while Bettys in Stonegate organised a sell-out fine-dining event.

Bettys & Taylors has been supporting Yorkshire charities for more than 25 years. The amount raised annually by its staff is matched pound for pound by the business.

Sarah Wells, community projects officer at Bettys & Taylors, said: “Charity fundraising is part of the lifeblood of Bettys & Taylors and staff from across the entire business are engaged in this work. Fundraising has a long history with us. Our first company charity of the year was to support a nurse called Mary Perkins working in war-torn Sudan and we raised £2,500.

“Since then, we’ve donated well over £1 million for charities, most of them here in Yorkshire.”