IT was a case of 'you snooze, you lose' for fundraisers from a North-East charity at the weekend.
Staff and volunteers from St Teresa's Hospice, in Darlington, pushed a bed around the town centre collecting donations from shoppers.
Sat up in the bed shaking a collecting tin was Yvonne Rowe, whose letter to The Northern Echo all the way back in 1985, planted the seed for what ultimately became St Teresa's Hospice.
The bed push is an annual fundraiser for the hospice which relies largely on donations to fund the £2m cost of its services each year.
Hospice fundraisers are a regular event, with a race day coming up at Catterick, in North Yorkshire, on Wednesday (July 15).
Starting next Sunday, students from Hummersknott Academy will cycle from Land's End to John O'Groats, to raise funds for the hospice.
For more information, visit darlingtonhospice.org.uk
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