CROSSFLATTS company Fastek ran a Safety in the Sun competition for schools across the region

The photocopier supplier invited school pupils to create safety posters.

Beechcliffe Special School in Keighley was one of the schools that had a successful entrant in the contest.

Staff from Fastek and its photocopier manufacturer RISO visited each school so the winners could print posters out on a mobile printing van.

Copies were given to the school to remind children how to stay safe in the sun during the summer holiday.

Each winner and runner-up received a ‘summer fun goody bag’ and a packet of sweets for each class friend.

Donna Stuart-Redden, sales and marketing coordinator at Fastek, and colleague Gareth Byrne spent a day going through the posters to pick winners because they received so many entries.

She said: “We were looking for something bright with a clear safety message for children. It was lovely to travel round between Manchester, Leeds, Bolton, Pendle and Keighley to visit our winners.

“We were welcomed by each school. The children were very well behaved, well-mannered and very proud to be winners and to have taken part.

“Some haven’t entered any competitions before and others had entered but never won. In our entries were two special schools and it was especially nice to meet these winners and see how excited and proud they were of themselves.”