£5,000 grant lifts school

DELIGHTED . . . Corpus Christi pupils Riley Parrish and Ilsa Ul-Haq (front) with (back, from left) Lillie Mae Morrison Bardsley, Caitlin Royles and Lollii-Jai Stenchion

PUPILS at a Chadderton primary school have won a £5,000 grant to help install a wheelchair lift.

Corpus Christi beat more than 150 schools, community groups and other organisations in an online vote for the Engage Mutual grant.

The lift will pupils and a member of staff with mobility problems to get up stairs to the school hall.

They include year one pupils Ilsa Ul-Haq and Riley Parrish, who sometimes have to go outside in the rain to get to the hall, or sometimes miss events.

Ilsa’s mum Farraq said: “We are really pleased, but we still have more fund-raising to do in order to get the full amount we need for the lift.”

The lift is expected to cost around £16,000.

Corpus Christi head teacher Chris Hanson said: “As a community we are over the moon. The level of support we have received has been amazing.”