Local children’s £100 notes designs on display at University of Leicester Botanic Garden

LEICESTER, 24-Feb-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Hundreds of local children have been drawing their own £100 notes, and thousands of these brilliant designs will be on display in the Knoll House on 5^th and 6^th March, coinciding with the second of the University of Leicester Botanic Garden’s Crocus Sundays.

One hundred of the children’s designs have been chosen for a special display, and six notes have been printed in quantity, to show what a million pounds looks like.

The bank notes are part of a project based at the University of Leicester to help local children see how our number system is built on tens, hundreds and thousands. It follows a much-loved venture last year, when city and county children made over 10,000 salt-dough hedgehogs. The hedgehogs were touring schools until October, when they went into hibernation.

Dr Rose Griffiths, from the School of Education, said: “The children have really enjoyed making money! There are designs from pupils aged 2 to 14, full of their ideas of what is important enough to feature on a bank note.”

This interactive exhibition will be open from 11am to 4pm each day. You can make your own £100, count bundles of money, play money games and see money from all round the world and from years gone by. Can we fit a million pounds in a suitcase? Come and find out.

Venue: Knoll House, Botanic Garden, Oadby, Leicester LE2 2LD

Time: 10am-4pm

Entry: Free

Contact: Jenny Mattingly: ubg@le.ac.uk