Arriva goes green

St Christopher's School in Wrexham has benefited from a donationof £3,000, courtesy of transport services organisationArriva.

Arriva has donated the money towards the school's award winningenvironmental work, including their Millennium Eco-Centre, whichwill enable the pupils to carry out a range of projects fromdevising ways to travel to school, to looking at how energy andwater bills can be reduced, to providing an Eco Centre forrecycling in schools and running an Environmental Taskforce.

After winning an Eco-School award on four occasions over eightyears from the environmental charity Encams, the organisationbehind the Keep Britain Tidy campaign, the school now has permanentEco-school status – one of only eleven schools in the UK.

Tom Balshaw, operations director at Arriva Cymru said:

We were delighted to be given the opportunity tosupport St Christopher's School, as part of the group's commitmentto the communities that we serve.

The school carries out a lot of excellent environmentaleducational work, for which they should be commended, and we hopethat the funding will enable them to carry on with thiswork.

Chris Pittaway, deputy head teacher at St Christopher's Schoolsaid:

It is marvellous that Arriva, both nationally andlocally, is supporting our environmental projects, and we arereally grateful for their support.

The Eco-Schools programme promotes environmental awarenessthrough school activities that link to the National Curriculum, andis recognised throughout Europe and South Africa . As part of theirwork, St Christopher's has taken the initiative to save energy andreduce waste recycling where possible and turn lights off as amatter of course.

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