North Yorkshire girl among Blue Peter's Earthshot competition winners
The Prince of Wales has met the winners of a Blue Peter competition asking young environmentalists to submit sustainability-focused ideas.
Last updated 1st May 2025
A young girl from North Yorkshire has met The Prince of Wales after being named one of the winners of a Blue Peter competition.
8 year old Mia was one of 5 young environmentalists whose sustainability-focused ideas were picked as winners.
William presented the children with certificates at a special reception held at Windsor Castle, and they also created eco-friendly bird feeders together themed around his Earthshot Prize.
The competition invited children, aged five to 15, to submit an original proposal aiming to achieve one of the five goals set out by William's Earthshot Prize - Protect And Restore Nature; Clean Our Air, Revive Our Oceans; Build A Waste-Free World; and Fix Our Climate.
The royal founded the Earthshot Prize environmental award in 2020 with a 10-year mission to find ways to protect and repair the environment with innovative solutions.
The winners, who showed their ideas to William at the reception, also presented their ideas at the Speaker's House in the House of Commons, in front of members of a cross-party environmental committee.
House of Commons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said: "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."
Among the winners was Marni, aged eight, from London, who came up with a "family forests" idea where a tree is planted for every person in the UK, and Mia, aged eight, from North Yorkshire, who proposed cleaning polluted water using algae ponds.
There was also Llewyn, aged nine, from Glasgow, who had an idea to invent compostable glasses, and Ruby, aged 10, from Devon, who entered with an idea to reduce waste with solar-powered vans.
Annie, aged 12, from Milton Keynes, had a proposal to save coral reefs by supplying them with nutrients and calcium using "ocean bursts" - an idea inspired by bath bombs.
Blue Peter said it had received almost 2,000 entries from across the UK.