A Swindon accountancy firm has handed over a cheque for £2,800 following a year of fund raising for its chosen charity.

Chartered accountancy firm Monahans has been supporting Swindon Carers’ Centre with a number of activities. Each year, individual branches of Monahans select a local charity and raise funds from quizzes, bake sales and dress-down days.

Monahans also used business “brains” across the town to raise cash in the annual Swindon Sports Quiz contributing  more than half the total raissed.

Craig Hatherall, ACA Trainee at Monahans who, together with senior accountant Holly Ayton organises social and charitable activities in Swindon, said: “We’ve had another very successful year of fundraising and we’re very proud to be able to hand over such a large amount to Swindon Carers’ Centre.

“The work that Swindon Carers’ Centre does is invaluable to the town and we wanted to be able to support them to help more people.”

Swindon Carers’ Centre supports 3,000 carers in Swindon, with 900 of these aged between five and 18 years.

Fiona Prinzi, director of service development, said: “Without donations and fundraising like this we couldn’t support so many carers and young carers across Swindon.

“We’ve been providing support to unpaid carers in the town for over 20 years and with this sort of support we are able to provide counselling and fun activities or carer groups, such as the Open Minds group for older people looking after those with dementia.

“It also enables us to provide fun activities that carers tell us they like to do, such as going fishing – as we have done this week. It’s the fun things like this that remind people that they’re a person in their own right, not just a carer.”

The cheque was formally presented to the charity as part of the Monahans Annual Charity Quiz. This quiz signals the start of the 2017/18 fundraising and welcomes the new Monahans Swindon Charity of the Year, which will be split between Prospect Hospice, Macmillan, the Dove Specialist Cancer Unit at the Great Western Hospital, and The Anthony Nolan Trust.

For more information on Monahans visit www.monahans.co.uk.