Kettering school donates Beat the Street cash to hospital

They won the schools' challenge last year
Brambleside Primary School head Drew Brown and some of his pupils present a cheque for 700 to Skylark Ward Play Specialist Caroline Freeman, Ward Sisters Carole Levy and Olivia Appleton and Healthcare Assistant Claire Smith.Brambleside Primary School head Drew Brown and some of his pupils present a cheque for 700 to Skylark Ward Play Specialist Caroline Freeman, Ward Sisters Carole Levy and Olivia Appleton and Healthcare Assistant Claire Smith.
Brambleside Primary School head Drew Brown and some of his pupils present a cheque for 700 to Skylark Ward Play Specialist Caroline Freeman, Ward Sisters Carole Levy and Olivia Appleton and Healthcare Assistant Claire Smith.

Pupils and parents from a Kettering primary school have raised money for the children’s ward at KGH by scoring the most points in a walk, cycle, and run challenge.

Brambleside Primary School topped the schools' leader board in Beat the Street between September and November, earning themselves £700 in sports vouchers.

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They have now donated the cash equivalent to KGH's Skylark Ward to help with the "fantastic care" they provide.

Headteacher Drew Brown said: “We are really proud of our community who really went the extra mile and threw themselves enthusiastically into the challenge.

“They enabled us to create the biggest team in Kettering and come top of the schools’ leader board with the most points and hence we won £700 in sports vouchers.

“As a school we decided to donate the cash equivalent to Skylark Ward at Kettering General Hospital because we are pretty sure everyone in our community has benefited from or knows someone who has benefited from the fantastic care provided by the team at the children’s ward."

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The initiative involved children and adults walking, cycling or running between 'Beat Boxes' located around the local area. Each box tapped with a card raised points and participants navigated between the boxes in their area using a map.

Beat the Street was created by Intelligent Health, a company dedicated to building active communities in the UK and worldwide.

In total, 8,629 people in the Kettering area took part and travelled 85,008.5 miles with 21 school teams and 26 community teams.

Skylark Ward manager Donna Mason said: “This is absolutely fantastic news and I am so grateful that Mr Brown and team have chosen Skylark Ward to donate to.

“We will use the donation to buy specific equipment for the benefit of those babies and children who are cared for on Skylark Ward.”

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