HERITAGE Isle Credit Union has donated $1000 to Beaconsfield Primary School after the school was targeted by vandals just weeks before the beginning of the new school year.
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The playground had been burnt and parts of a school building were vandalised with graffiti on January 17.
Heritage Isle chief executive Annette Griffin said: "It's sad to think there are people in your community that would actually come in and destroy something.
"Our staff really concentrate on our grassroots and we bank with children, so it's really important that we can support them in some way, that is what motivated us to step in."
Heritage Island stand-in Beaconsfield branch manager Karen Hinds said she and other employees had children who had gone to the primary school, and seeing the community rallying together in times like this was therefore important.
"Children were about to go back to school and now they can't play on that equipment - it is sad," she said.
Ms Griffin said the bank hoped other community groups and businesses could help out in a similar way.
"It's a good way to give back to the community what the community gives us."
