The National Trust has donated thousands of chocolate eggs to hospitals, food banks and charities after it was forced to cancel Easter hunts because of the coronavirus outbreak.
Cadbury sent more than 30,000 boxed eggs to National Trust for Scotland (NTS) for its egg hunts before the lockdown began.
Staff have shared out out half the treats to vulnerable people and frontline workers across the country, and they now want other sweet-toothed groups to contact them.
The chocolates have a use-by date of July, so hopefuls will need to hop to it if they want to receive their own special delivery.
NTS estimates that if stacked on top of one another, the original 30,000 eggs would have been three times the height of the tallest mountain in the Scottish Highlands, Ben Lawers, at 3,984ft.
Mark Bishop, of the NTS, said: “It was absolutely heart-breaking to have to cancel our Easter egg hunts this year and not be able to welcome the tens of thousands of people who we usually see.
“As well as being our biggest weekend of the year, Easter marks the start of the season for many of our properties but given the unprecedented global situation, everything had to be put on hold. In the midst of all this, though, we saw that some good could come out of the situation.
“Thirty thousand Easter eggs don’t eat themselves and our operations teams have been finding places for them to go.
“It’s wonderful that so many have gone to the NHS and to other groups and organisations doing incredible work in our communities.”
Last year 32,000 people took part in the trust’s Easter egg hunts and the 2020 event at 41 sites across Scotland had been expected to be even bigger.
The remaining eggs are currently being kept in storage at trust properties.
Suggestions of organisations which could take the chocolate can be made through the NTS social media pages.
