The schools are taking part in the ‘Top Trumps For Top Attendance’ Challenge. Pupils will be rewarded for ‘100% Attendance’ or ‘100% Effort For Attendance’ with unique Challenge badges and will earn a Top Trumps reward if they complete The Challenge across the whole of the Summer Term.

The participating schools are Griffin Park Primary, Witton Park High School, St Aidans C of E Primary, St Peters RC Primary and Meadowhead Infants. For further information about The 100% Challenge in Blackburn please click here

To read more about all of the inspiring finalists and watch short films of the stars of the show click here.

The winners have been announced for the best female led ethical businesses in Britain: the Ethical Business category has been won by Anne MacCaig, CEO, Cafédirect; Ethical Small Business winners are Sarah Brooks and Susi Lennox, Yes Pure Intimacy and the Ethical Entrepreneur awards has gone to Rose Marley, CEO, MOTIV. Winners were announced last night at a special awards ceremony in London.

Sue Cooper, Triodos Bank’s Deputy Head of Business Banking, and one of the judges said: “Everyone profits from the work of the inspiring enterprises highlighted tonight,” she said. “That’s because they’re as focussed on their impact on people and the planet as the money they make”.

The Triodos Bank Women in Ethical Business Awards (WEBA), launched in 2006 and run by sustainable finance specialists Triodos Bank, celebrate the women running the nation’s best ethical businesses. The WEBA winners are true entrepreneurs who are blazing a trail for doing business in a way that benefits people or the environment. This year, for the first time, the awards are run in partnership with The Times. A special award voted for by readers of the newspaper, The Times Reader Award, went to Heather Gardener-Masoud from Zaytoun, importer of fairtrade olive oil from Palestine.

Rose Marley, Founder and MD of MOTIV, a company which works with schools and improves school attendance rates by running pupil programmes that incorporate main stream brands and popular culture won the Ethical Entrepreneur category. Rose said, “Winning this award is a recognition of the work we have achieved to date and our aim to build a formidable social enterprise, effecting social change with the aid of private sector sponsors.”

Anne MacCaig, CEO of the Fair Trade hot drinks company Cafédirect said, ““For Cafédirect – winning the Ethical Business Award is a fantastic way to recognise our way of doing business and inspiring others. We hope this will encourage other companies to change their thinking and emulate our model.”

Yes Pure Intimacy, winners of the Ethical Small Business Award sponsored by Ecover, produce the world’s first and only, range of certified organic intimate lubricants. The driving forces behind it, Sarah Brooks and Susi Lennox said, “Winning a WEBA means more happiness, more smiles and more women getting their intimate health back. And they’ll do it without compromising their bodies or their conscience with synthetic chemicals, skin irritants and hormones.”