SCHOOLCHILDREN have been celebrating after we revealed the 30 schools that have reached the shortlist of our big money giveaway.

The 30 schools in South Worcestershire, listed below, have all put forward projects they would spend their share of the £25,000 Cash for Schools competition we are running in conjunction with Western Power Distribution.

But now they need your help.

All of the schools will receive a portion of the money but how much they get is down to you.

Every day for the next four weeks we will be printing a voting token in the paper.

All readers need to do is collect the tokens, write the name of the school they want to win the money and send it to us.

You can collect as many tokens as you like, vote as many times as you want and for as many schools as you choose.

During the next four weeks, we will publish details of each school's project so you can decide which one you believe is most deserving.

The more votes a school receives, the more money it will win to put towards its project.

The top prize is £5,000 while second place gets £3,000 and third and fourth place will receive £1,500 each.

However, every school on the shortlist will receive a share of the money as set out in the table on this page to ensure as many youngsters as possible benefit from the competition.

Dave Park-Davies, WPD’s distribution manager for Worcestershire said: “As a major employer in the region, we try to provide support to a variety of projects relating to education, safety and the environment.

“We are delighted with the response to the Cash for Schools initiative and would like to pass on our best wishes to all of the nominated schools for the next stage of the process.

“We are looking forward to seeing how the cash will make a real difference to schools across the county.”

Western Power Distribution (WPD) is the electricity distribution network operator for the Midlands, South Wales and South West.

The organisation delivers electricity to almost eight million customers over a 55,300 square kilometres service area, making it one of largest electricity distribution companies in the UK.