Staff at a Southend company paid to wear casual clothes to work and raised more than £400 to help a local charity.

Jane Littlejohn, supervisor at Lloyds TSB Card Company, is a befriender with the shared leisure and advocacy service which helps out people with learning disabilities.

She nominated the charity to receive all the proceeds from a mufti day - the coined phrase for casual dress days - held at the firm in Southchurch Road.

Jane presented a cheque for £430 to the charity's co-ordinator Jennie Andrews and Joanne Rigby, one of the people who benefit from the service.

Friends - Jennie Andrews, shared leisure co-ordinator, Joanne Rigby and Jane Littlejohn, supervisor at Lloyds/TSB Card Services

Picture: MIKE NEVEILLE

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