AS CHICKEN stew goes, it was not the most appetising dish on offer at Crayford’s Iceland store.

There was just vegetable scraps, cold gravy mixture and a rubber chicken - and Julie Naylor.

Mrs Naylor, 49, who works in the Crayford Road store, sat in a bath of the stew for eight hours outside the shop, wearing a blue wig, a t-shirt and her husband’s swimming trunks.

But it was all in a good cause.

She and the rest of the staff have been raising cash for the company’s adopted charity, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool.

Thanks to a generous public, Mrs Naylor’s efforts raised £300 of a total of more than £500 raised by the Crayford store.

Despite it taking a shower, and a long, hot bath to rid herself of the smell of the stew, Mrs Naylor says her efforts were “worth it for the kids”.

Last year, she raised nearly £1,000 by sitting in a bath of gravy.

Now she says she is throwing in the Oxo cube.

She explained: “After two years, we are looking for something more imaginative for next year, and one of the younger staff members can take a turn.”