A LOCAL school is bidding to gain a share of a multi-million pound fund.

St Andrew's CE School, in Hampton is hoping to earn part of Tesco's £12.5million carrier bag charge fund.

The school is hoping to enhance their outdoor learning area after gaining an initial award of £8,000.

Lindsey Crompton, head of community at Tesco, said: “The first round of the Bags of Help initiative was a fantastic success.

“In total 1,170 community groups were awarded £8,000, £10,000 or £12,000 - that’s a massive £11.7 million being invested into local projects.

“We are already seeing some great results from groups transforming their own environmental and greenspace areas.

“We are absolutely delighted to open the voting for round two. There are some fantastic projects on the shortlists and we can’t wait to see them come to life in hundreds of communities.”

The initial award is allowing the school to replace and update the outdoor adventure play trail.

If they are successful in securing more funding of £2,000 or £4,000, further enhancements of the school outdoor learning area will take place.

Some of the children’s ideas include an outdoor learning classroom, quiet seating areas with raised planters to grow fruit and vegetables and a role play stage.

Charlie Crump, Year 5 school councillor, said “Thank you Tesco very much, we appreciate the money that has been given us and we will look after our equipment and use it safely.

"We are so excited and can’t wait to learn and play on our new equipment. Please vote for us when you go to Tesco.”

The supermarket has teamed up with Groundwork on its Bags of Help initiative, which see grants of £12,000, £10,000 and £8,000, raised from the 5p bag levy being awarded to environmental and greenspace projects.

This is the second round of the initiative: the first round saw approximately eight million shoppers vote in the country earlier this year.

Three groups in each of Tesco’s 416 regions have been shortlisted to receive the cash award and from next month and customers can vote using a token given to them at the check-out.

St Andrew’s CE School is one of the groups on the shortlist.

Voting is open in the Evesham store from Monday October 31 until Sunday November 13.