Staff at ScottishPower are celebrating 'sock-sess' after raising more than £1,200 for charity.

As part of its ongoing charity campaign ScottishPower launched the Odd Sock Amnesty in March, inviting customers to send in sock disappearance suggestions along with an odd sock. Entries included poems, stories, and holiday postcards. A staggering 12,000 odd socks were brought out of bedroom drawers and donated to the scheme.

Customers handed over odd socks to raise money for ScottishPower's charity initiative, PowerPartners. For every sock collected, the retailer donated 10p to the charity which supports: Age Concern, RNIB, RNID, NCH Action for Children, Disability Scotland, Disability Wales and RADAR in England.

Here is a selection of wacky answers to where odd socks disappear:

1. Same place shop receipts go when you are looking for them
2. Stolen by Jake the Peg with the extra leg
3. Teleported during the spin cycle by your washing machines to someone else's washing machine
4. Eaten by the dog
5. To Leftum-Sumware, a place just outside Wellington

Marketing director Dominic Kelly said: "We wanted to introduce an element of fun into our fundraising and the disappearance of the odd sock is one of the great mysteries of the universe. The response from customers has been fantastic."