Ilkley school donates books to children's cancer ward (From Wharfedale Observer)

Ilkley school donates books to children's cancer ward

5:16pm Thursday 11th October 2007 in Schools By Amanda Greaves

GIRLS at Ilkley's Moorfield School got into a good book to help raise money for children undergoing treatment for cancer.

Pupils raised £2,350 for CLIC Sargent Charities after a sponsored Readathon last term.

This enabled the school to buy hundreds of new books for its library, and it donated half of them to the children's ward in the oncology department at St James's Hospital, Leeds.

The gift was particularly welcome as the ward is desperately short of both fiction and non-fiction books.