Teenagers and their friends have raised more than £1,000 with a charity they founded to help a school in Kenya. The pupils at St Mary's School, Menston, originally set out to raise £750 to rebuild the school at Kilimani, Mombasa, by forming their own registered charity, Build A School In Kenya (BASIK). Fifteen-year-old Will Normington, of Ben Rhydding, saw the school run in a tiny building when he and his family were on holiday in Kenya. This summer, the boys plan to walk 50 miles in a weekend in the Yorkshire Dales.

Spencer Hardcastle, 15, said: "We want to raise as much as we can. People can go onto our website, www.justbasik.co.nr and donate money there." They are sponsored by Brad-ford printing company, Norpak, which donated cash to the ap-peal and supplied free printing of publicity material.