PUBS in Dorset have helped to raise more than £24,000 for air ambulance charities this year through the sale of ham, egg and chips and bangers and mash.

Hall and Woodhouse pubs have been including a charity dish on their menus throughout the year, with 25p from the sale of each dish going directly to charity.

The current charity dish is ham, egg and chips, but earlier this year it was sausage and mash.

The brewery, which was founded in Dorset, has chosen to split the money between eight local air ambulance charities.

Lucinda Gray, Company Relationship Manager, said: “We are very grateful to all our guests for supporting our local air ambulances this year by purchasing our charity dish. Our menus explain this initiative, so our guests understand that through their choice, a 25p donation is going straight to the local air ambulance charities, to continue saving lives.

“This is one of many initiatives that we have created across our estate and throughout the two-year partnership, our team members have come together to raise as much money as possible. We are proud to have already raised over quarter of a million pounds during this partnership.”

Two years ago, Hall and Woodhouse team members voted to make the eight air ambulance charities their official charity partner until 2020. Through the partnership, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, Great Western, Hampshire and Isle of Wight, Kent Surrey Sussex, London, Thames Valley and Wiltshire Air Ambulances will receive support from the company.

A total of £114,287 was raised for charity by the brewery in 2018 and the 2019 total will be calculated in the coming months.

The 52 pubs that make up Hall and Woodhouse’s estate stretch from Bristol to Exeter and London to Brighton.

In Dorset, Hall and Woodhouse has 14 managed houses including The Crown Hotel in Blandford, The Old Granary in Wareham, The Grasshopper in Blandford and The Olive Branch in Wimborne.

For more information visit www.hall-woodhouse.co.uk