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Newspaper offers £110,000 of school prizes

Schools’ Mission 2000 is the name of the biggest-ever prize giveaway to be run by the Nottingham Evening Post.

Vouchers are printed in the paper each day and more than £110,000 of prizes are on offer to the schools which collect the most vouchers per pupil each month. The competition was launched six months ago and runs until the end of May.

Monthly prizes given away so far include a £5,000 revamp for a school, adventure holidays for pupils, a £5,000 school piano, £5,000 of software and £5,000 of energy-efficiency measures from British Gas.

At the end of May, five grand prizes will be given away to the schools which have collected the most vouchers overall per pupil. They will each win a £12,000 technology suite including computers and TVs provided by communications company NTL.

Mick Casey, public relations manager with NTL, said: “NTL stands for No Technology Limits – and the children of Nottingham should not be limited because they do not have access to technology.”

Schools’ Mission 2000 has been endorsed by the leaders of the city and county councils, and other sponsors include Capital One, Nottingham Forest Football Club, American Adventure theme park, British Gas, Superchoice Adventure Holidays and Clement Pianos.

The prize on offer for the school which collects the most vouchers in March is a trip to the Challenger Learning Centre in Leicester, where pupils can become astronauts for the day and embark on a simulated space mission. The centre is the first part of the larger National Space Science Centre which is scheduled to open on the same site in 2001.

A series of spot prizes is also being offered this Easter to reward the armies of collectors who are helping schools to win prizes. These include CD-Roms, video recorders, computer games and mystery goodie bags.

Post editor Graham Glen said local education has always been dear to the paper’s heart, and added: “We want to help schools into the millennium and beyond.”

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