ST MARY'S Hospice received the most amount of money from the cash raised by Keswick and Coniston to Barrow walkers. 

The Ulverston hospice received £32,000 out of the £378,347 raised in total by walkers on May 13.

The amount of money each charity receives depends on where the teams want the funds they raised to go to. It is calculated after enough money is banked to run the following year's event. 

St John's Hospice, based in Lancaster, also received a substantial sum of money.

They were given a £10,000 cheque by the committee members. Derian House Children's Hospice received £4,500, and Treetops Hospice got £1,600. 

Lisa Morgan, fundraising manager for St John's, said: "We have to raise £12,000 a day, we're only one-third government funded, the rest comes from our amazing community and people like the Keswick to Barrow committee. So when you think how much it costs to keep our doors open, £10,000 is a phenomenal amount and will go a long way to support patients and their families."

£10,000 also went to Barrow Food Bank, an organisation that has become an important resource for deprived families during the cost of living crisis. 

"The money will go towards people in crisis in the local area," food bank representative Matthew Burden said. 

Bay Hospitals Charity received £15,000. It manages charitable funds given to Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, which oversees Furness General and other hospitals in the region.

Suzanne Lofthouse, from Bay Hospitals Charity, said: "A lot of our equipment can be high cost, so what we will probably do is looking at putting it into a general pot for Furness General."

She said that certain units more often receive money from donators such as oncology so the general pot will ensure that the money goes to where it is needed most. 

Ms Lofthouse said that a scanner that the charity is providing to the trust costs £62,000. 

Some of the other big awards went to organisations such as Furness Motor Neurone Disease, which received £11,500, and CancerCare North Lancashire and South Lakeland, taking £13,500. £12,500 went to the Christie Charity which supports The Christie Cancer Centre in Manchester. Tens of thousands of pounds went to other cancer and health-related charities. 

Alice's Escapes, which offers holidays to places including the Lake District for families with seriously ill children, received £9,000.