A group of youngsters from Watford raised more than £1,000 for disadvantaged children around the world.

Charlotte, Annabel, and Emma Staines, and Maya, Roma and Kieran Agnihotri arranged a puzzle solving day to raise money for Child Hope.

The event took place yesterday and involved a series of lateral thinking puzzles at different difficulty levels.

Child Hope is an international charity that helps vulnerable children through healthcare and education.

Jenny Staines, mother, said: “It went really well, we had a great turnout having sold all the available tickets.

“People came in and each table was given a puzzle to do, such as balancing penguins on a wobbly board, or arranging three shapes into a pyramid.

“During the second half there were bigger puzzles which people had to solve as a team, and people were getting quite competitive, calling out when they had finished.

“It's been a great thing for our kids to do, when they were first organising it they couldn't envisage how it would go.”

The group, aged between seven and 13, have been publicising the event, seeking donations for raffle prizes and selling tickets since November.

Charlotte Staines, the eldest of the group, said: “We were brought up well in a good country but some people in other countries don’t have the same things that we do so we thought we should help them.

“It feels nice that we are helping other people.”