FANCY dress was a favourite theme for the day as fundraisers entertained crowds for Children in Need.

Staff at Tesco supermarket dressed up and raised £1,138, while in The Shires Shopping Centre, Trowbridge, firefighters climbed a total distance higher than the top of Mount Everest in a sponsored ladder climb.

The staff at the HSBC bank in Trowbridge dressed up as cartoon characters and raised £145 while the Bradford on Avon branch held a bedtime with Pudsey event. They read stories by authors including Roald Dahl and Shakespeare and raised just under £300.

For the past two weeks, schools in Wiltshire have been selling gingerbread men for 25p each as breaktime snacks. They will be donating the money they have raised in December.

District councillor John Annetts and Sean Price, the town crier of Westbury, travelled around west Wiltshire to collect money from the public. They raised £1,260.

Rock and roll fans gathered at the Four Seasons pub in the Market Place, Chippenham.

Halle Bop, a band playing music from the fifties and sixties, entertained the revellers and a collection during the show raised £120.

"We had a good crowd and I'm very pleased with how the event went," said manager Chris Mills.

Parents and supporters of the Key day nurseries in Calne and Chippenham got their mixing bowls out to cook up a mountain of cakes for staff to sell. Dressed in pajamas and slippers, nursery staff made a total of £500.

Six-year-old Alexandra Muir was disappointed when an accident meant she couldn't take part in the sponsored swim Crockerton School had planned to raise funds. The event raised £100, plus a £25 donation on Alexandra's behalf, and she will tackle the challenge soon.

The landlord and one other person at The Angel Inn in Heytesbury shaved their heads and raised £5,000.

At Yatton Keynell Golf Academy an old car has been placed in the middle of the driving range and golfers are paying £1 to have a go at landing a ball inside the vehicle.

The car will stay on the golf course for a month and there will be a £100 prize for the persons who guesses correctly how many balls are inside it.