In just one month, London estate agency, Chestertons, collected almost 4,000 coats for the charity Calling London to help vulnerable Londoners through the winter months.

The agent turned each of its high street branches into donation points and worked with clients, staff, businesses and local schools such as Mill Hill School, Holy Cross and Halstow Primary School who raised hundreds of additional coats.

Many Chestertons employees, including the agency’s newly appointed CEO John Ennis, volunteered over the final campaign weekend to sort the donations ready for distribution to charities. The donations have now been distributed to over 30 charities and shelters across the capital, including Crisis at Christmas, Little Village, Smartworks, Suited & Booted, Hestia and several food banks across the capital.

Giles Milner, Marketing Director and a Trustee of The Chestertons Foundation, said: “It’s wonderful to see all of the innovative ideas and approaches that Chestertons employees come up with to raise more and more coats every year for our Calling London Coat Drive. We are very pleased to have collected so many coats and I’m enormously thankful to all of Chestertons’ staff, clients, friends – and the local communities we worked with – for their generosity.”