Yellow Submarine, an autism charity in Oxford, has been awarded £1,000.

The donation comes from Vodafone's Community Connection Award which was launched in 2014 to help local communities and staff at the Vodafone Witney branch decided the Yellow Submarine deserved this year's award.

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The money will help fund five of the charity’s ‘Wacky Wednesday’ events, designed to give 20 members the opportunity to plan a day trip out or try something new such as bowling, swimming or karaoke.

Alice Knibbs, fundraising and marketing officer at Yellow Submarine, said: “This generous £1,000 donation from Vodafone will allow us to continue to support people in Witney with learning disabilities and autism. Thank you to the Vodafone store in Witney for choosing to support us!”

The charity's coffee shop was recently voted by Oxford Mail readers as the best in Oxford.

Najeeb Rahmany, store manager at Vodafone in Witney, said: “Yellow Submarine does incredible work helping people with learning disabilities and autism live life to the full. It was fantastic to meet representatives from the charity as well as some of the people they support in our store and see this first hand.”