A COMMUNITY-MINDED young team have donated the proceeds of a summer challenge to charity.

Annie Smithson, Lorna Kirby, Poppy Stokes, Charlotte Bainbridge, Emma Kirby and Daniel Smithson from East Cowton, North Yorkshire, took part in the Lifestyle project run by North Yorkshire Police.

The scheme aims to get young people aged between ten and 17 working on a community project of their choice during the summer holidays.

As well as clearing overgrown vegetation near a play park, they carried out improvements to the local Millennium Wood, including preparing a new woodchip pathway, cleaning benches, making a bug hotel and preparing information sheets about the trees and wildlife to be found there.

The group then promoted the woodland by organising a charity event in the village hall.

Their efforts raised £230.44, and the group, who went under the name Superbugs, have thanked all those who supported them.

The money has been split equally between The Pendragon Community Trust, which runs a multi-sensory centre in Northallerton, and Hambleton Community Action, which offers support and advice to voluntary groups.