Pamphill gets Gold Oak award

Yellow Pages has awarded cash prizes to schools that encouraged the recycling of the most old Yellow Pages directories and Pamphill First School received the Gold Oak award and£300.

The school recycled an average of 16.82 directories per pupil. Hampreston First School won the Silver Birch award and £200, whilst Witchampton First School carried off the £100 Bronze Beech award. 

St Catherine’s First School scooped the £100 bonus prize from Yellow Pages for producing the best local artwork by using the directories they collected to create a beautiful butterfly.

For every pound given to schools, Yellow Pages has donated a matching pound to the Woodland Trust – the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity. Janice Hix from the Trust said: “The money from the Yellow Woods Challenge supports our Tree for All campaign, which aims to plant 12 million native trees – that’s one for every child in the UK.”

Gemma Coles, Waste Reduction Manager for East Dorset District Council, said: "The Council actively promotes the message of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle and organising the Yellow Woods Challenge in the district is a big part of this.”

The top six schools have also won a year’s free membership to the Trust’s ‘Nature Detectives Club’ courtesy of Yellow Pages. Members receive regular educational materials to make learning about nature fun throughout the year.

The Challenge resulted in a total of 5306 old directories being recycled so that they can be used to make packaging material.