Schoolchildren across the Harrogate district have submitted their ideas to tackle climate change, including reducing our consumption of goods.

Children were invited to share their ideas, either as posters, poems or digital entries, for a competition that was part of the Climate Action Festival. The festival has been running throughout October and has been coordinated by Harrogate District Climate Change Coalition.

There were over 250 entries from children aged 7 - 16. Children won gift vouchers for local shops including Imagined Things bookshop and Games Arcade. Schools won National Book Token to buy environment-themed books.

Many children said we should walk and cycle more and generate more renewable energy.

Buying fewer things was also a common theme, including the following poem from Edward, a 14-year-old pupil at Ashville College. 

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 12 prizes awarded to young people, with a prize also going to their 8 schools:

 Nidderdale High School, Pateley Bridge

Aspin Park Primary Academy, Knaresborough

Holy Trinity Junior School, Ripon

St Robert’s Primary

Oatlands Junior School

Starbeck Primary 

Ashville College

Highfield Prep School

Prizes were sponsored by Enviva and were awarded by Professor Piers Forster, member of the UK Climate Change Committee and lead author of IPCC reports.