It’s the biggest beneficiary in the promotion where shoppers collected vouchers at the check-out and picked which schools they wanted to receive money.

Across the whole Glen Innes area, the supermarket chain said 160,000 vouchers were collected (one for every $10 spent – adding up to $1.6 million of spending to earn a voucher).

Eight schools then got a slice of the total (Glencoe Central Primary School, Glen Innes High School, St Joseph's Primary School, Glen Innes Public School, Glen Innes West Infants School and Wytaliba Public School), with Glen Innes Public School getting the biggest share.

Cole’s General Manager for NSW, Reagan Lauder, said: “We’re really impressed by the way the local community has got behind the program by collecting so many vouchers for their school.”

“We hope the new sports equipment will result in a lot of healthy, active fun for school kids in Glen Innes.”

Coles said that it would deliver “an extensive range of quality sports gear” over the coming weeks to the eight schools. They rpomised an assortment of cricket and softball bats, footballs, basketballs, javelins, hockey sticks, skipping ropes, racquets, first aid kits and nets.

Across Australia, more than 7000 schools participated in the Sports for Schools program between February and April this year by collecting over 200 million vouchers at Coles.