Church Walk Shopping Centre would like to send a huge thank you to everyone who made a donation during their recent Pirates Day celebrations.

Centre Manager Shelley Filippi said: "You raised £179.15 for the centre's chosen charity for 2013, the Ambulance Services Benevolent Fund. The ASBF offer essential welfare work to past and present staff and do not receive any Government or Lottery grants. They were established in 1986 to help ambulance service personnel and their dependants from all over the United Kingdom, Ireland, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man in times of genuine hardship. The Trustees are all unpaid volunteers and they work for the ASBF in their own limited spare time."

The Fund assists claimants to deal with a whole variety of distressing circumstances, many arising from the stressful and demanding incidents they have had to deal with in their careers in the ambulance services.

For more information about the ASBF visit asbf.co.uk