CUSTOMERS at a York restaurant have helped raise vital funds for a blood cancer charity by eating its chocolate bauble dessert.

Skosh, on Micklegate, decided to raise funds for Myeloma UK, a charity close to the heart of the restaurant’s owner Neil Bentinck, whose father died 13 years ago after a long battle with leukaemia.

From every Skosh bauble sold throughout December, it has given £2 to the charity, which along with donations from customers, raised £1,001.

Neil has matched this amount, so altogether £2,002 has been donated to Myeloma UK. The restaurant sold more than 450 baubles last month. It is the third year they have donated money to the charity from the sales of this dessert.

York resident Carol Miller, who runs the York Haematology Support Group, collected a cheque for £2,002 on behalf of Myeloma UK.

Neil said: “We are delighted with the amount we have raised and all the customers support for the charity.”

As well as chocolate, the bauble contains passion fruit, miso and caramel.