TWO pupils from Wycliffe Preparatory School have got sore legs after sitting in almost every seat of the Kingsholm Stadium for a fundraising challenge.

Ben Bayliss, 12, and Hugo Murray, 13, challenged themselves to sit in as many of the stadium's 16,500 seats as they could in one day.

After eight hours of bending their legs and shuffling their bottoms 30,000 times they'd sat in more than 15,003 seats each.

The Year 8 friends decided to do the venture last Saturday (Jan 16) as part of Wycliffe's annual Kirby Challenge which asks pupils to complete an activity that benefits the community or school.

They set themselves a target of making £500 and smashed it.

Hugo’s mum, Nicky, said: “We didn't realise the enormity of what they had done until we reached the stadium and realised that they had to put down every seat before they could sit on it.

"They loved it. We would have collapsed in a heap at the end but the first thing they did after they finished was run on to the pitch to kick a ball over the posts.”

The money they raised will go to Wycliffe Preparatory School's chosen charity, The Wallace & Gromit Grand Appeal which funds life-saving equipment for Bristol Children's Hospital.

The boys received a message of support from Mike Tindall and thanked Gloucester Rugby Club for letting them use the stadium.