A NEW business promoting the advantages of learning a foreign language has made a donation to charity after raising the cash by accident.

Amigos Languages has opened a shop in Richmond, where it will be running language clubs and selling educational toys.

The launch included face-painting for children, competitions and spot prizes, but the Amigos donkey also took to the streets, giving out sweets and leaflets to promote the new venture.

However, generous passers-by mistook the promotion as a charity collection and decided to give rather than to take.

Spokesman Jody Dunn said: "One man even slowed down in his van and threw money at us from the window; in the end, we had more money than sweets and decided to tell people any cash they wanted to give us would go to Children in Need."