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Sawtry Anglia Co-operative foodstore community champion Pina Corbino presents the �500 Pick Up A Penny cheque to headteacher Fiona Wheatley and pupils from Sawtry Infant School. Photo supplied
SHOPPERS are helping to sow the seeds for an amazing environmental experience for schoolchildren.
Sawtry Infants School, in Middlefield Road, Sawtry, wants to create a sensory garden that will become a nature haven for its 154 pupils.
The village’s Anglia Co-operative foodstore, in Glatton Road, has pledged to help them raise the money they need for the project.
In their latest ‘Pick Up A Penny’ fundraising campaign the store donated 1p to the school for every till receipt collected from customers.
Shoppers handed in almost 50,000 receipts and store community champion Pina Corbino presented a cheque for £500 to the school’s headteacher Fiona Wheatley last week.
This amount follows an earlier Pick Up A Penny fundraising campaign which was launched when the new store opened in October.
In total, the store has now raised more than £1,000 for the school.
Store manager Hayley Bewick said: “Our customers are really getting behind the fundraising.
“We have said we will raise as much money as we can to help the school open the sensory garden, and with the proceeds from the Pick Up A Penny campaign we’ve already provided £1,100.
“It’s a lovely school. We collected more money in-store over Christmas and have more fundraisers planned – we really want to make the sensory garden happen for them.”
Mrs Wheatley has been bowled over by the support from the store and its customers.
She said: “We are so grateful. They are determined to help us get the sensory garden open and their latest donation is superb. The idea is to have a garden that will support curriculum work and can be used by the pupils and their parents.”
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Wednesday 23 May 2012
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