SIX Yorkshire charities have benefited from a £125,000 donations from Yorkshire business Bettys and Taylors.

Staff from the six Bettys tearooms around the county - including two in York - the cookery school and craft bakery and Taylors of Harrogate, have raised more than £62,000 for eight charities, and with pound for pound match funding from the family business have been able to donate a total of £125,033 to good causes.

In York, staff at the two branches in St Helen’s Square and in Stonegate, York, raised a total of £17,225 for their chosen charities, York MIND, and Independent Domestic Abuse Service.

IDAS supports people experiencing or affected by domestic abuse, and the charity's Sarah Hill said: “IDAS is really grateful for the fundraising Bettys in York has done and plans to use the money to help support children and young people who’ve experienced domestic violence.”

York MIND's Holly Pollard said they would use the donations from Bettys to provide more therapeutic one-to-one and group activities, aimed at helping individuals to understand and cope with the effects of mental illness.