Disabled employees at Remploy, in Merrington Lane, Spennymoor, collected more than 50 chocolate Easter eggs for children at Rosebank School, at Ferryhill, to mark 2003 European Year of Disabled People.

Organiser Iris Pickford said: "We are trying in various ways to celebrate this special year by partaking in community support and raising the profile of disabled people."

Remploy Spennymoor specialises in contract assembly and packaging work.