LOSTOCK-based bakery, Greenhalgh's, has been serving up a different slice of bread to four charities. Staff at the bakery spent last year raising £10,000, marking the company's 40th anniversary, by dividing the proceeds between four charities. Each received a cheque for £2,500 at a special buffet lunch at the bakery.

Pendlebury Children's Hospital will use their share towards buying equipment for the early detection of genetic disorders in new born babies.

The donation for the Royal National Institute for the Blind will fund an aromatherapist visiting the Sunshine House School in Southport one day a week.

Children's Opportunity Group in Bolton will use theirs to install an impact absorbing play area in their grounds and the Marie Curie Fund will use their cash to fund extra nursing care.

A Greenhalgh's spokesman said: "Both workforce and management decided that the firm's special 40th birthday year could be made all the more meaningful by our being able to put something back into the community.

"We had a lot of fun arranging the various activities to raise our target figure."

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