Advocate Alison Ozanne, founding partner of AO Hall Advocates, who came up with the idea of the Put A Match To £1 million competition, surrounded by potential winning students of all ages. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0666557)

WOULD you like to see a million pounds go up in smoke? If you come up with a top fund-raising idea for Les Bourgs Hospice, you could light the match.

Put A Match To £1 Million is a competition launched in schools today to raise awareness of the hospice.

The prize is the chance to burn £1m. in used Guernsey currency which is no longer in circulation.

Students under 18 must come up with imaginative and innovative ways to raise £1m. for the hospice. There are three age categories – up to 11, 11 to 16 and 16 to 18.

A panel of judges, including Chief Minister Lyndon Trott and Guernsey Press editor Richard Digard, will select the category winners who will all get the chance to burn £1m. at a secret location on 16 December.

The closing date for entries is Friday 28 November. Category winners will be announced on Friday 5 December with an overall winner, who will be decided by a public vote on www.thisisguernsey.com, revealed on 12 December.