Pictured above: Horwath Clark Whitehill partner Helen Drew with King Charles I students Joy Talbot, Kayleigh Davenport and Noemi Barranca

Art students from a Kidderminster school are to have their work on permanent display in the offices of accountants and business advisers Horwath Clark Whitehill.

Pupils in Year 10 at King Charles I School, Kidderminster were invited to submit work for the main meeting room in Horwath Clark Whitehill's new office suite.

Students, working with former pupil Emma Ashman, now an art student at Liverpool University, were asked to create scenes from around the Kidderminster area.

Helen Drew, Head of Not for Profit clients at Horwath Clark Whitehill said: "We are always keen to support and encourage talent in local schools and we are delighted with the high standard of the work from these students.  We have decided to display all of the pictures in our meeting rooms.

"As a reward, we will be paying to send the students to an art exhibition in London."

Eileen Stead of King Charles I School said: "These pupils aged 14 and 15 are in the gifted and talented art group and were delighted to be given the opportunity to work on such a prestigious project with Horwath Clark Whitehill."

The firm may now be involved with other future projects at the school, which has just won a place in the regional finals of the Young Enterprise Scheme - of which Horwath Clark Whitehill manager David Cory is chairman for the Wyre Forest area.

Young Enterprise is the UK's largest business and enterprise education charity, with 300,000 students involved in programmes every year.

Programmes are designed on the principle of Learning by Doing, bringing volunteers from business into the classroom to work with the students and teachers.

Students learn about business first-hand, either by setting up and running their own company or through classroom-based programmes.