THE Lord Mayor of York welcomed a generous donation for his charities during a visit to a city company's headquarters.

Coun David Horton was invited to view the control centre of transport maintenance company, Jarvis.

Jarvis chief operations officer Kevin Hyde took the opportunity to hand over the company's £2,000 donation to the Lord Mayor's charities. Marketing Director Will Dunnett said: "We now have many staff working here in York since we developed in the area, and we wanted to put something back into the community."

Updated: 10:56 Saturday, February 15, 2003