The winners of Barking and Dagenham’s Street Tag competition are using their prizes to raise money for charity.

Sylvia Sielicka, Yasmin Sattar, Shormin Begum and Erum Rashid make up the winning team, Al Noor, and are to sell some of the £1,000 worth of bikes they received from Cllr Maureen Worby this afternoon to raise money for the Rohingya Wellbeing Centre, a charity effort by Human Aid UK.

Although they had first place in the bag, the team kept walking up until the final day to break the 100,000 point barrier.

The team of six walked and cycled more than 1,000 miles raising money to build a care centre for Rohingya refugees.

The 4.2 mile course in Mayesbrook Park ended after six weeks on 11th March with 176 people participating across 69 teams.

In total 3,304 miles were walked between 20 tag locations, the equivalent of walking to Rome and back with distance to spare.

Cllr Worby congratulated the team on their victory and determination regardless of bad weather and other problems the project has faced such as theft and vandalism of the tags.

The council hopes to expand the scheme in time for the summer. Cllr Worby said: “It’s a relatively simple way of getting people active. We want to role this out to every park in the borough. It’s innovative and builds community.”

Winning team member Mrs Sattar said spoke of what kept them going. “To motivate yourself on your own is so difficult but the challenge helps,” she said.

“You’re part of a team and you motivate each other it’s a brilliant way of staying committed.”

Mrs Rashid echoed the sentiment even in the hardest conditions, saying: “The hardest part was the cold. There was one evening in the snow when it was -2 and it took 20 minutes before you warmed up.”

Seun Oshinaike set up technology behind the scheme and said the scannable QR tags are easier and cheaper to run than the original digital boxes.

Al Noor are excited to stay top of the leaderboard and beat their current record when the expanded game starts up later this year with Mrs Sattar saying: “I’m hooked. It’s really lovely.”

Donations to the ladies’ charity can be made at bit.ly/2oUqWo6