Joy as Hartlepool pupils receive ‘buddy bench’ after nearly £3,000 raised by school clothing bank
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West View Primary School, in Davison Drive, Hartlepool, first started accepting donations to the clothing bank in late June 2021.
Since then, the community has donated around 7,500kg of textiles and raised more than £2,750 for the school.
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It helps to lessen the impact on the environment, with 30p going towards the school for each kilo of clothing that is donated.
Fundraise and Recycle, which provided the clothing container, has now donated the “buddy bench” as thanks.
Children have now painted and decorated it.
Headteacher Lauren Furness said: "We know that it’s not just our school community supporting us, it’s the wider community as well.
"We’d just like to say thank you for all of the support that we’ve had so far.”