05/21/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 05/21/2024 10:23
Is your child concerned about climate change? Do they want to inspire others to take action?
Article date: 21 May 2024
St Helens Borough Library Services are working together with Read Now Write Now who are running the Climate Champions 2024 creative writing project across the Liverpool City Region.
Read Now Write Now will deliver a series of free writing courses in schools, libraries and online to help young people aged 9-13 write powerful and inspiring stories about climate change. The stories will be collected in a published book (using recycled paper), displayed in local libraries and online as well as read out at special storytelling events.
Writing courses are taking place across the city region, but in St Helens Borough will take place during the summer half-term holiday at:
To join simply choose one of the three available sessions. Places are free but limited, so please book by contacting [email protected]. The other regional locations are:
Online courses are also available on:
Councillor Seve Gomez-Aspron MBE, Cabinet Member for Transport and Environment, said:
Climate anxiety among children and young people is a worrying but natural and warranted rising trend. They are rightly concerned about the world they will inherit. The actions we take and the choices we make every day, from recycling more and driving less to preserving water and energy, are for our children and future generations worldwide. We should all be listening to them and I'm eager to read their collected stories, while similar initiatives like our Youth Climate Commission are giving young people the opportunity to seize the climate change conversation."
Councillor Kate Groucutt, Cabinet Member for Business, Culture and Leisure, said:
Our children and young people bear the weight of such vast global issues which they had no part in creating and feel they have little power to affect. It is vital that we as their parents and guardians, neighbours, teachers and community leaders foster hope and quell the notion that 'it's too late' to alter the course of climate change, while taking action to reduce our impact and prove that it isn't. We hope these free courses will provide a positive and creative outlet for young people with these concerns, and I can't wait to see what they come up with."