Blue Peter competition winners share their Earthshot ideas with Prince William

Blue Peter has announced the winners of the Blue Peter Earthshot Competition, which invited children aged 5 – 15 to come up with an idea to help save the planet and be recognised by Prince William and The Earthshot Prize.

The five winners met The Prince at Windsor Castle and had the opportunity to ask him questions about the environment. They also joined The Prince for a Blue Peter ‘Here’s One I Made Earlier’ moment creating Earthshot themed eco-friendly bird feeders together.

At the special reception inside Windsor Castle, each of the winners presented their winning idea to Prince William, who then awarded them with their certificates.

The winners also presented their ideas at Speaker’s House in the House of Commons in front of members of a cross-party Environmental Committee.

Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the House of Commons, says: “I was absolutely thrilled to meet the Blue Peter Earthshot competition winners and to hear their imaginative and innovative ideas to help protect the planet. The thought that had gone into their ideas, and the enthusiasm with which they discussed them with us was genuinely exciting.”

The five winners are:

• Marnie, aged 8 from London, came up with an idea for family forests where a tree is planted for every person in the UK.
• Mia, aged 8 from North Yorkshire, wants to stop factory pollution and global warming with an idea to help clean polluted water using algae ponds.
• Llewyn, aged 8 from Glasgow, had an idea to invent compostable glasses which allow people to see how much carbon dioxide is in the air and encourage them to make steps to prevent pollution.
• Ruby, aged 10 from Devon, entered with an idea to reduce waste with solar powered vans to give people access to refill services.
• Annie, aged 12 from Milton Keynes, had an idea to help save coral reefs by supplying them with nutrients and calcium.

Blue Peter received almost 2000 entries from all over the UK with children submitting their ideas and inventions to help protect and restore our planet in the future.

Children were invited to submit an original idea aimed at achieving one of the five ‘Earthshots,’ the aspirational environmental goals established by The Earthshot Prize: Fix our Climate, Protect and Restore Nature, Clean our Air, Revive our Oceans and Build a Waste-free World.

The ideas are to be celebrated on Blue Peter on Friday 7 February (5pm on CBBC and BBC iPlayer).