Randall and Payne Accountants played 11-a-side football against a team from Nat West Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland in aid of charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer, in cold, blustery, floodlit conditions, raising £480 on the night with an expectation that the final figure will be around £730 thanks to Nat West’s matched funding scheme.

Randall and Payne won by 5 goals to the combined team from Nat West & RBS’s 2 goals in a game that began quite cautiously with good defending on both sides. Randall and Payne quickly gained confidence after their first goal was scored by Adrian Stokes, but the banking side put up a spirited defense, scoring the final goal of the match just before the whistle. John Barker from Randall & Payne said: “It was great to see this normally desk-bound bunch move so fast - thanks to everybody who braved the elements, both players and supporters, making it into a great evening’s entertainment, culminating in an excellent donation to such a worthy cause.”

Having lost her mother, Vilma May Baxter, to breast cancer in 2008, this charity is especially dear to Tess Campbell from Royal Bank of Scotland. Tess and her family have organised a number of fund raisers and said: “We’ve organised a few of charity events and they’ve all been great fun. We like to raise a smile as well as money and if we can raise the fitness levels too, everybody wins!”

Breakthrough Breast Cancer is a pioneering charity that aims to save lives and change futures through research, campaigning and education, to remove the fear of breast cancer for good.