Friends of St Leonard’s Hospice patient June Edge have raised more than £1,000 in a sponsored walk.

Six friends and colleagues, including June’s sister Carol Barnett, undertook the 16-mile walk from Whitby to Ravenscar and in March.

With sponsorship from friends and families, they raised £1,065 for the work of the hospice, which June herself presented to Marsha Richardson, for the hospice.

Carol said: “Until you know someone who is a patient in the hospice, you don’t really understand how much great work it does. “The walk was our way of giving something back because they’ve been so good to June.”