Dogs will yet again have the chance to visit Santa, have a photo taken and receive a present as Santa Paws is returning to the Manchester Betty & Butch boutique store on the 6th and 13th of December.

With all proceeds going to charity, the event was the first of its kind when it began in 2011. 

General Manager Angel Moore came up with the idea just a week after opening the store: "Being a new business, we had no idea what the initial turnout would be, but by 10am we had a queue around the corner of the shop! 79 dogs visited Santa that day and loved it."

The event was such a success that Betty & Butch were inundated with requests for more days in the run-up to Christmas, so in subsequent years have been running two weekends of Santa Paws.

Each year has been bigger than the last, and most recently the store was turned into a Santa's Grotto with a professional photographer in attendance.

Betty & Butch partner with a different animal charity every year, and rotate just before Christmas to give a much-needed boost to funds.

"Each branch that we open in the future will work closely with charities local to it," says Angel. "We do this for our love of dogs and its very important to us that we continue to help local charities."

This year, all proceeds will go to the Society for Abandoned Animals, based in Stretford, Manchester.