A Windermere-based holiday cottage company has raised £2,500 for search and rescue dogs in the Lake District.
Lakelovers, which manages 460 properties, raised the funds from donations made by visitors and guests.
The £2,500 will be used to ensure that the Lake District Mountain Search and Rescue Dogs’ Association has appropriate first aid and medical equipment to deal with the casualties they find, and the environments they find themselves in.
Lakelovers also recently raised more than £60,000 in aid of the Save The Red Squirrel fund.
Business development manager for Lakelovers Keswick, Graham Wilkinson, said: “We raise money every year for a local charity and we thought that the search and rescue dogs was a fantastic cause to support.
“We have 60,000 guests staying in our cottages every year and, while we care greatly about their happiness and comfort during their stay with us, we also want them to be in safe hands while they are exploring the area.
“The volunteers and the dogs do a very difficult but amazing job and, as many of our guests enjoy the great outdoors on their visit, it’s great to know that this brilliant charity and their dedicated volunteers are there to help should an excursion on the fells go wrong.”
Martin Bell, committee member and acting secretary of the Search and Rescue Dogs’ Association, said that while the donation would help the organisation, it would also benefit from greater awareness generated by the publicity.
He added: “This very generous donation will assist us greatly in upgrading our kit to be of the greatest value to our casualties”.
“We are really pleased to have such a well-known local company, with a strong reputation, supporting its local search dogs.
“It makes our name and cause known a long way outside our home patch, bringing in funding from people who would not necessarily know of our existence. This is something we are very grateful for."