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| Youngsters soak their feet after their Sport Relief trek - (from left) Connor Silvera and Maddy Harris, both aged six, Megan Emerson, aged eight, Erin Hooton, aged seven and four-year-old Ben Castle. |
CASH is still coming in for the country's Sport Relief campaign after a host of sporty youngsters and adults took part in action-packed charity events.
Sporting youngsters at Gig Mill Primary, Norton, put their best foot forward and raised around £400 by each walking a mile around the grounds of their school.
The four to 11-year-olds who attend the 326 after school club were sponsored by family and friends to complete trek.
More than 50 children finished the course, 13 laps around the playground, and all received a certificate, lollipop and souvenir photograph for taking part.
Club owner and manager Jackie Parmenter said: "They could choose how they completed the mile, by running, walking, skipping, or hopping - some even tried it twice."
She and the other five staff also finished the course and Jackie said the event was set to reach its £400 target with £370 already having been collected.
Meanwhile, youngsters at St Joseph's Primary either ran or walked the cross country track next door and collected £197 after paying £1 each to take part.
They were allowed to dress in red to mark the fund-raising occasion.
More than 30 fitness fanatics aged 10 to 64 from the Fitness Factory, Bradley Road, Wollaston, raised more than £400 with a sponsored two-mile jog for Sport Relief.
And five sporty staff from Walton & Hipkiss estate agents in Hagley pounded the streets of Birmingham on March 16 as part of the charity's nationwide challenge.
All the money raised through Sport Relief will be spent by Comic Relief to help vulnerable people living tough lives in the UK and abroad.
3:14pm Thursday 27th March 2008
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