Staff at a Folkestone supermarket spent an hour each sitting in a bath of cold, chopped tomatoes to raise money for Comic Relief.

Six Sainsbury’s employees took on the chilly challenge after colleagues tipped 66 small cans of the bright red vegetable into the bath at the Park Farm Road store on Saturday .

Their efforts raised about £400 in colleague and customer donations to the charity, which aims to eradicate poverty around the world.

Duty manager Loren Porter said: “We’ve done beans before so we thought we’d do tomatoes and they’re red. The volunteers came out of the bath freezing and the tomatoes really smelt!”

The supermarket will be releasing 500 helium balloons on Friday (March 13), to mark Red Nose Day and customers can pay £1 to have their name written on one and see whose travels furthest.

There will be a tombola in store raising even more money for Comic Relief on Saturday.

As a thank-you buyers will have their named listed on a special poster in the store.

The balloons will be released at 1pm on Friday at the supermarket car park.

To buy a balloon just turn up at the store and also have your name put down on the list.

Are you doing something 'funny for money' this Red Nose Day?

Contact the newsdesk on folkestoneexpress@thekmgroup.co.uk with your pictures and what you've been doing.