Family-owned The Entertainer recorded rising sales and profits last year despite ongoing struggles with the high street.

The toy specialist’s pre-tax profits soared 29% to £14.7m and sales were up £37.3m to £204.4m during the year, according to The Times.

The Entertainer was founded by husband and wife Gary and Catherine Grant, who pocketed a £2.6m dividend following the results.

The couple give 10% of the toy retailer’s profits to charity.

The Entertainer bucks the trend and refuses to open on Sundays or sell Halloween or Harry Potter toys after Gary Grant turned to religion 10 years after opening the toy store in 1981.

Grant said: “I’m accountable to God, not to shareholders.”

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