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Chippy dinners helped to raise more than £5,000 for charity this weekend - with a defibrillator to be installed on the side of Beetons chippy and the rest of the money donated to Guernsey Chest & Heart LBG.
The business's owners have previously held charity days for other local good causes, as well as to raise funds for humanitarian efforts in Ukrainian following the Russian invasion in 2022.
Saturday's charity day was the first they have held since then and this time the owners chose a charity very close to their hearts.
Kim and Andy Ashplant had a target of £4000 they wanted to raise - which they easily exceeded with the support of their customers.
Last year, Mrs Ashplant's sister, Tina Collenette, suffered a cardiac arrest and her life was saved by a defibrillator located at the Albany.
"She basically died. It's only the defibrillator that actually got her back and the lovely people around," said Mrs Ashplant.
"She can't remember, but my poor niece is traumatised," she added.
"(Tina) woke up in the morning with a pain, but thought it might be indigestion. She's not a fusser at all but my niece 'come on, let's just go and check it out'. They drove through town and then at the Picquet House, my sister basically died.
Pictured (l-r): Tina Collenette and Kim Ashplant.
"(My niece) then pulled into the Picquet House lay-by and thankfully, there was an off-duty police officer walking past and there was a retired doctor sitting on the steps of the Picquet House. Everything was in the right place, and the defibrillator is just around the corner.
"People were just so good. They helped....they worked on Tina. She was so lucky. She just had everybody there, and she got sent away to Southampton, and then was there a couple of weeks and is thankfully still with us and Christmas was fabulous. We just feel very lucky."
There are hundreds of public access defibrillators across the Bailiwick, but more are needed because they need to be used very quickly when someone has suffered a cardiac arrest, as Mrs Collenette did.
Mr and Mrs Ashplant had been told that a defibrillator would cost them £1500 to install on the side of their chip shop, which sits in a densely residential, and industrial area, at a busy traffic junction between Pitronnerie Road, the Bouet, and La Vrangue.
Saturday's charity day raised more than enough money to buy the defibrillator with the rest of the money to be donated to Guernsey Chest & Heart LBG.
Mrs Ashplant told Express that members of her family have been for check ups at the chest and heart clinic since Mrs Collenette's cardiac arrest.
"(My niece) has since gone, and my girls, got tested at the Chest & Heart, because they didn't realise in their 20s that that facility is there for them to do that, and it's all donations. So that's why we thought we'll do the two together and raise money for the defibrillator to go on the front of the shop too."
Pictured: The owners of Beetons will donate all of their takings on Saturday 11 January to Guernsey Chest & Heart LBG.
Mrs Collenette and representatives of the Cardiac Action Group and Chest & Heart LBG were at Beetons on Saturday.
Every customer contributed to the fundraising appeal with all profits directed entirely to the charities.
Additional money was donated too with a grand total of £5,800 raised.
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