BOLTON Golf Cot raised £3,600 for four charities last year.

The local golf charity organisation's chairman Brian Lee, president of the Bolton Ladies Championship, Helen Mosscrop, and committee members presented £900 each to Bolton Samaritans, Macmillan Cancer Care, Making Space and Bolton Dementia Support at Great Lever and Farnworth Golf Club.

The Golf Cot has been raising money for good causes in Bolton since 1915 when captains Tom Entwistle and John Tommy Howcroft inaugurated a golf tournament to raise money to provide food parcels for Bolton men in German prison camps.

After the war the proceeds from its fundraising events each year were given to the Bolton Royal Infirmary to purchase modern cots for the children’s ward, which is how the organisation got its name.

A ladies' golf cot was founded in 1919 and it merged with the original cot in 1933 when another competition, the mixed Golf Cot, was introduced.

Following the creation of the National Health Service all the proceeds have been given to charities nominated by Bolton golf clubs to benefit residents of Bolton.