Growing trees from Yellow Pages

TREEMENDOUS . . . Sacred Heart pupils Travis Hopwood, Daniel Marland and Laurel Lord with the Yellow Pages mascot

SCHOOLS across Oldham have won cash prizes and raised hundreds of pounds to plant trees by recycling old Yellow Pages.

Thirty-eight schools took part in the Yellow Woods Challenge, run by Yellow Pages, working with the Woodland Trust — the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity — and Oldham Council.

Sacred Heart RC Primary School, Watersheddings, was the Gold Oak award winner and received £300 from Yellow Pages for recycling over three directories a pupil.

Diggle Primary School won the Silver Birch award and £200, while St Mary’s Primary School, Greenfield, received a £100 Bronze Beech award. Royton Hall Primary School and North Chadderton Secondary School scooped the two £50 bonus prizes for Outstanding Achievement.

For every £1 awarded to schools, Yellow Pages donates a matching £1 to the Woodland Trust to support its Tree for All children’s tree-planting campaign.