An award-winning chocolate company will be personalising Easter eggs in aid of a good cause.

Montezuma’s head chocolatier, Caitlin Paxton, will be heading to stores in the run up to Easter to personalise any Easter egg for customers with its organic chocolate.

In exchange, the company is asking for a £1 donation to support its Chichester-based charity Children On The Edge.

For over ten years Montezuma’s has been working with Children On The Edge to support marginalised children across the world.

Each year at Montezuma’s, donations are matched up to a maximum of £20,000 per year.

Last year, the company raised over £48,000 for the charity, with activities in store, online and at its headquarters.

People can get their personalised Easter egg at:

  • Brighton – April 1 – 10am – 4pm

Montezuma’s was created when, in 1999, Helen and Simon Pattinson tired of their jobs as financial lawyers in London, sold up and embarked on a trip to South America.

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Their travels took them through Argentina, Chile and Venezuela and they stumbled upon San Carlos de Bariloche, an entire town dedicated to chocolate.

The trip changed their life and they returned to the UK, enthralled with chocolate and keen to find a place in the UK market for innovative, ethically sourced products.

In August 2000 they opened their first shop in Brighton, making chocolate at night and selling it by day.

The company now has seven shops and is sold nationally and internationally through a network of high-end retailers and distributors.

It sell its range of bars, buttons and truffles through its own shops in London and the South East, online and through Whole Foods, Sainsbury’s, John Lewis, the Co-op, funkypigeon.com and good independent fine food stores nationwide.

A Montezuma’s spokesman said: “Since its creation, Montezuma’s has adopted strong environmental and ethical policies setting clear goals for all operations including supplier and customer relations, ingredient sourcing, packaging, waste and energy use.

“The company aims to always prioritise substance over style and sustainable and organic business growth over greed in order to bring quality British-made chocolate to the market.”