STAFF and students from Bishop Auckland College have put their heart and sole into a campaign to raise awareness of lifesaving CPR.

That’s after they backed the #Heels4Hearts campaign led by ITV’s Daybreak programme, which is giving school and college students the opportunity to learn the vital procedure to save someone’s life.

The campaign is appealing to the public to donate unwanted, wearable shoes to British Heart Foundation shops.

This will then help fund CPR training kits in secondary schools and sixth form colleges across the UK so young people can learn the lifesaving skills.

Bishop Auckland College staff and students stepped up to the challenge by donating 46 pairs of shoes to the British Heart Foundation shop, in Bishop Auckland town centre.

Shop manager, Ange Bell, thanked the college and said many of the shoes they had donated had already been sold.

“We are very grateful to Bishop Auckland College for supporting this campaign and its local British Heart Foundation store,” she said.

“We had very low stock of footwear before their donation bags arrived, and we have even managed to restock our winter collection for later in the year, from the donations we received from them.

“There were some lovely shoes donated and many of them have already sold.”

For more information on the campaign visit itv.com/goodmorningbritain/heels-4-hearts.