Cash For Schools - Don't miss out

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The Advertiser's Cash For Schools scheme 2008 is underway.

You can help a school near you win a top prize of £10,000 or a share of another £10,000 by simply collecting tokens from the Advertiser. Special tokens will be printed for eight weeks in the Advertiser from Thursday, May 1until June 19.  

There are 44 schools taking part in this year's scheme and each participating school aims to collect as many tokens as possible to give them the best chance of winning the top prize, which will be allocated based on the highest number of tokens collected per pupil at the school.

On top of this, every participating school which collects the equivalent of two tokens per pupil will also receive a share of another £10,000 prize. 
Last year’s participants who collected the qualifying number of tokens were each presented with a cheque for nearly £400 – a sum which could be used for any capital expenditure of their choice.

The money is being given away by the Louis Baylis (Maidenhead Advertiser) Charitable Trust, which owns the Maidenhead Advertiser. 

Cllr Eileen Quick, the Royal Borough’s lead councillor for children’s services, said: “This is an excellent opportunity for schools to raise money and boost their much-needed coffers. 

“If every parent simply gave their child’s school two tokens from the Advertiser printed over the eight week collection period, they would guarantee some kind of cash benefit for that school. And the more tokens you collect, the greater chance you have of winning the top prize of £10,000,
which would be great news for any school.”

If your children, grandchildren, nephews or nieces are at any of them, make sure you give them your tokens to take into school.
But you don’t need a child at a school to still help. Simply collect the tokens and take or send them to the school you want to support – each of which will have a special token collection point set up. 

So, make sure you collect the special tokens in the Advertiser every week to help give a vita cash boost to the area’s schools. To find out more about Cash For Schools, or if your school would like to participate, call Sally Ellison on 01628 678248 or email sallye@maidenads.co.uk

These are the schools taking part so far:

All Saints CE Junior School
Altwood CE Secondary School
Alwyn Infant & Nursery School
Bisham CE Primary School
Boyne Hill CE Infant & Nursery School
Braywood CE First School
Burchetts Green CE Infants School
Burford School
Burnham Grammar School
Carrington Infant School
Claytons Primary School
Cookham Dean CE Primary School
Cookham Nursery School
Cookham Rise Primary School
Courthouse Junior School
Cox Green School
Crazies Hill CE Primary School
Dorney Combined School
Dropmore Infant School
Ellington Primary School
Furze Platt Infant School
Furze Platt Junior School
Furze Platt Senior School
Holyport CE Primary School
Holyport Manor School
Holy Trinity CE Primary School
Knowl Hill CE Primary School
Larchfield Primary and Nursery School
Lowbrook Primary School
Marlow CE Infant School
Newlands Girls School
Oldfield Primary School
Our Lady of Peace Infant and Nursery School
Polehampton CE Infants
Polehampton Junior School
Priory School
St Edmund Campion Catholic Primary School
St Luke’s CE Primary School
St Mary’s Catholic Primary School
St Nicolas CE Combined School
St Peter’s Catholic Primary School, Burnham
Sonning CE Primary
Waltham St Lawrence Primary School
Wessex Primary School
White Waltham CE School
Woodlands Park Primary School
Wye Valley School

Terms and conditions:
*Entry is restricted to Local Education Authority nursery, primary and secondary schools as invited to participate in the Cash For Schools scheme prior to its launch.
*All final entries must be made on an official entry form - to be supplied to participating schools – and accompanied by the number of tokens stated on the entry form.
*Entries must be received at the Advertiser’s office at 48 Bell Street, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 1HX, by 5pm on Monday, July 7, 2008.
*Only official tokens printed in the Advertiser will be accepted.  No photocopies please.
*The £10,000 top prize will be allocated to the participating school which collects the highest number of tokens per pupil at the school.  In the event of two or more schools collecting the same ratio of tokens, the money will be divided equally between them.
*The remaining £10,000 prize money will be divided equally among the remaining participating schools which collect a minimum of two tokens per pupil.
*All prize money must be used on capital expenditure, such as the purchase of new equipment, and not on revenue expenditure.
*Proof of postage of tokens is not proof of receipt.
*The editor’s decision is final.  No correspondence will be entered into.
*The winning school will be expected to take part in promotional photography and publicity.
*No purchase necessary.  For a token send an SAE to Cash For Schools Scheme, Maidenhead Advertiser, Newspaper House, 48 Bell Street, Maidenhead, SL6 1HX.  Tokens limited to one per request.