Adlington shop staff are here to help elve-ry day of December

The team at The Mortgage Experts on Chorley Road will be dressing up as elves every day in December for charity.

The mortgage brokers has decided it wants to make a donation to a local grass roots mental health charity and have chosen Lancashire Mind.

Employees have already caused a bit of a stir in the village by dressing up as Santa and his elves for the shop’s Christmas card.

Director Steve Mayor said: “The staff are well up for it. We’re just trying to bring a bit of brightness to the misery of what’s going on.

“We’re on the school run and have already had a few people looking in. The shop’s decorated and the little kids just love it.

“We’re not your standard mortgage brokers - we like to make things a little bit different.”

The Mortgage Experts is a trading style of Saving-You.com Ltd Saving-You is a team of fully qualified financial advisers, based along the M61 corridor between Preston and Manchester.

It launched in 2005 with the main aim of saving people money on their mortgage.

Steve said the staff enjoyed the Christmas card photo shoot - which included a Beatles-stytle Abbey Road album front cover of crossing the road outside the shop, much to the amusement of passers by and motorists.

“We had a few pictures done for the Christmas card,” he said. “We were out there for about 20 minutes.”

Steve said he appreciated being in lockdown was difficult for people’s mental wellbeing.

“The big thing at the moment is stress and anxiety,” he said.

“We have all felt it here. It’s just motivating us to keep going,”