Chilterns support Drake Primary School with Tesco 'Bags of Help' Scheme
Drake
Primary School is bidding to bag a massive cash boost from the Tesco Bags of
Help initiative.
Tesco
teamed up with Groundwork to launch its community funding scheme, which sees
grants of £4,000, £2,000 and £1,000 – raised from carrier bag sales in Tesco
stores - being awarded to local community projects.
Three
groups in every Tesco region have been shortlisted to receive the cash award
and shoppers are being invited to head along to Tesco stores to vote for who
they think should take away the top grant.
Drake
Primary School is one of the groups on the shortlist.
Drake is a growing Primary
School and we have just had a large build and refurbishment project take place
at our School to accommodate this. As part of the build we have a new Library
and new furniture but no new books. We have books from when we were an Infant
School but we need to buy books, both fiction and nonfiction, suitable for our
older Key stage 2 children.
Mrs Ridgeon, Deputy Head
children said:-
‘ We will use any funding
we are awarded to buy all kinds of exciting books to go into our lovely new
Library which will help inspire our children to read and learn’
Voting is
open in all Tesco stores throughout November and December. Customers will cast
their vote using a token given to them at the check-out in store each time they
shop.
Tesco’s Bags
of Help project has already delivered over £36 million to nearly 8,000 projects
up and down the UK. Tesco customers get the chance to vote for three different
groups every time they shop. Every other month, when votes are collected, three
groups in each of Tesco’s regions will be awarded funding.
Alec Brown,
Head of Community at Tesco, said:
“We are absolutely delighted to open the
voting for November and December. There are some fantastic projects on the
shortlists and we can’t wait to see these come to life in hundreds of
communities.”
Groundwork’s
National Chief Executive, Graham Duxbury, said:
“We’ve been thrilled to see the diversity of
projects that have applied for funding, ranging from outdoor classrooms, sports
facilities, community gardens, play areas and everything in between.
“We’re
looking forward to learning the results of the customer vote and then
supporting each group to bring their project to life.”
Funding is available to community groups and charities looking to fund local projects that bring benefits to communities. Anyone can nominate a project and organisations can apply online. To find out more about the scheme click here.
Andrew Overman of Chilterns met with Allison Haines (Business Manager) Tim Ritchie (Assistant Head), both of Drake Primary School and with Sarah Douthwaite (Tesco Community Champion, Thetford) to promote the scheme across social media to help with efforts to raise this much needed cash for the school library fund.