Wrates' Humpty Dumpty and Newark resident Dave Silvester help Beaumond House Community Hospice

Play school television favourite Humpty Dumpty was in on the act when a donation was presented to a hospice.

Wrates School Photography ran a Facebook marketing ploy asking for shares with the chance to win £50.

It attracted 100 shares and the winner picked was David Silvester, from Newark, who asked for the money to go to Beaumond House Community Hospice, Newark.

Mr Silvester does a lot for charity and when he made his request, Wrates decided to increase the amount by five.

Wrates is Newark and Skegness-based and has Sherwood Laboratories on Brunel Drive, Newark.

The company bought the original Humpty puppet from the iconic children’s television programme and nominated two charities for him to support.

Coincidently, one is Beaumond House because one the company’s directors, Kitz Bagley’s grandmother was cared for at the hospice before her death.

The other is the RNLI, mirroring the Skegness connection.

The £250 donation will be split equally between the two good causes.

Wrates are photographers specialising in schools’ photography, but started out in 1907 with its photographers taking pictures of the three to four million annual holidaymakers on the Skegness seafront and selling them to them.

They branched out into schools’ photography and class pictures to sustain them out of season.

The company’s purchase of Humpty Dumpty around seven years ago for £7,000 achieved national publicity and he is now the company’s mascot.