STUDENTS in the Cotswolds are being given the chance to take to the stage at WOMAD festival this year, but not for their musical talents.

Green energy company Ecotricity has launched a competition to find four young green visionaries to show of their ideas at the Malmesbury-based festival.

Stroud-based Ecotricity, who will once again host a stage at WOMAD, is asking pupils aged 11 to 16 to send in their ideas about how to achieve a Green Britain.

The four winners will explain their plan at the festival at Charlton Park on July 26 along with a celebrity mentor who helped nurture their ideas.

The winners will be mentored on the day by one of four industry experts, including actor and electric car fanatic, Robert Llewellyn, BBC wildlife television presenter, Simon King, Founder of the Duke of Cambridge Organic Pub, Geetie Singh-Watson, and Ecotricity founder Dale Vince OBE.

Students are invited to send in their ideas one or more of the categories including energy, food, transport and nature.

To be in with the chance of being one of four winners, pupils can email a video, written piece, or a recording of their ideas for how Britain can become greener by changing our attitudes on one of these topics to younggreenbriton@ecotricity.co.uk

Each winner will receive a weekend pass, including camping and backstage entry into the Artists’ Village, and two adult tickets to WOMAD 2015.