ENVIRONMENTALLY aware youngsters have raised money for charity through their recycling efforts.
Children from St Cuthbert's Roman Catholic Primary School, in Crook, have been recycling their computer ink cartridges to support a fundraising recycling campaign being run by The Butterwick Hospice in Bishop Auckland.
It is the second time that the youngsters from the school have supported the campaign.
At Christmas, they collected more than 30 refuse bags full of Christmas cards which were used to raise funds for the hospice.
Butterwick Hospice volunteer Bernard Harrison paid a visit to the school to thank the staff and pupils for their fundraising efforts, and to tell them how important their contribution was to its work.
Pupils John Hoyle and Lucy Pedley, both eight, presented him with a cheque for £159, which was the total raised from almost 200 computer ink cartridges.
Mr Harrison said: "We are very grateful and it is good to be able to work with the schools throughout the area to raise money in this way.''
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