Collect for Cash: Wellhouse, well done!

Nov 11 2008 by Andrew Hirst, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

WELLHOUSE Junior and Infant School, Golcar, is the big winner in this year’s Schools Collect for Cash contest.

It was the biggest entry ever with Examiner staff having to count their way through almost 56,000 tokens.

Changes to the way it was run made it fairer for the smaller schools – and they responded .

Barclays bank put up £10,000 cash, with the money going in descending order to the top five.

First was Wellhouse Junior and Infant School (£3,000), 2nd was The Ethos Pupil Referral Unit in Rawthorpe (£2,500), 3rd was Scissett CE (A) First School (£2,000), 4th was Netherton Infant and Nursery School (£1,500) and 5th was Cumberworth CE (A) First School (£1,000).

Over five weeks in September and October the Examiner printed tokens in the newspaper each evening, with the schools collecting the most in with the chance of winning big cash prizes.

Examiner senior marketing executive Natasha Maskery said: “We had 52 schools registering to take part and pupils, parents, teachers, relatives and friends have all rallied round to collect as many as they possibly could for each school.” There were also special days when people could vote online via the Examiner website and these votes were added to the tokens that people cut from the newspaper.