Collect For cash: Huddersfield schools in chance to win big cash prizes

Jul 15 2009 Huddersfield Daily Examiner

THE popular Schools – Collect For Cash challenge is returning to the Examiner straight after summer, but schools need to act quickly and sign up now.

Schools throughout our circulation area will have the chance to grab a slice of £10,000 – but they must register with us and ideally before they break up for summer at the end of this week.

Over the last two years the Huddersfield Daily Examiner’s Schools – Collect for Cash promotion has given away £10,000 in cash each year to local schools to spend on whatever they needed – and the same amount is on offer again this year.

Last year the overall winner was Wellhouse Junior and Infant School which benefited from £3,000 to transform an area of wasteland into a new play area.

Ethos Pupil Referral Unit in Rawthorpe came second and are using their £2,500 for educational outings and third placed Scissett CE (A) First School received £2,000 to spend on playground equipment.

Netherton Infant and Nursery School came fourth and won £1,500 to buy a play den and fifth place Cumberworth CE (A) First School’s £1,000 bought them some new digital cameras and camcorders.

Barclays bank has teamed up with the Examiner once again to offer schools the chance to win a share of another £10,000.

The £10,000 will be split into five separate amounts:

1st prize ... £3,000

2nd prize ... £2,500

3rd prize ... £2,000

4th prize ... £1,500

5th prize ... £1,000.

This is just the latest in a long list of projects the bank carries out to support their local communities.

Stuart Ambler, branch manager for the Huddersfield area, said: “Barclays Community Programme aims to make a real and lasting difference to the local communities where we live and work.’’