Sponsored leg waxing and dressing up as film characters were some of the events that helped staff at an Oxford-based builders' merchants raise £75,000 for charity.

Chief executive Kevin Middleton with Peter Cardy, holding the cheque, and Sue Prowse from Macmillan Cancer Relief

Buildbase employees raised the money for Macmillan Cancer Relief in less than a year, easily exceeding a target of £50,000. Staff at the firm's headquarters in Cowley joined hundreds of others from 80 branches across the UK to fundraise.