ESTATE agent James Gesner has been thanked by a Dorchester charity for raising £26,000 in two years.

Mr Gesner has backed the Footsteps Foundation, which supports the Footsteps Centre, where young people with physical and learning disabilities get specialist treatment.

Mr Gesner has organised an annual golf tournament at Haddon Hill, Didcot, and ran the London Marathon this year.

Staff at the centre help disabled children improve their mobility.