Green Expo Photo Competition

Green Expo 2025’s annual photo competition for complete beginners and professionals closed on 31st May and the nine winning entries were on show in Chester Cathedral in time for Climate Impact Week, Chester Green Weekend and World Oceans Day.

Jill Houlbrook from Chester collected her Highly Commended certificate for her entry ‘Bee and Phacelia’. She said; “I’ve planted phacelia especially for the bees in my urban garden wildflowers. Here is one enjoying it with me. We can all help to revive green spaces and support the resilience of our natural flora and fauna. It takes only a small space to make a difference and to make your neighbourhood into a place wildlife thrives.”

The judges commented; “Great photo that helps to share the types of things we can be planting to help our bees. If ever there was a story of resilience, then the bee is the most likely hero. I think the image tells a real story.”

Winning entries will be on display at Chester Cathedral until the end of July.

To enter the 2026 competition, please visit: 

https://greenexpo.uk/photo-competition

The competition has three categories you can enter: Progress to Net Zero, Climate Change and The Natural World’s Resilience. Entries are open to those under 18, adults 18+, and professional photographers.

Green Expo 2025 inspires attendees to focus on what North West England and North Wales’ carbon neutral future look like. Local, national, and international organisations showcase how they are achieving their plans as they move towards net zero.

Members of the public, schools, students, businesspeople, inward investors and organisations interested in climate change, carbon reduction and Net Zero are encouraged to get involved with and attend Chester Green Weekend in June and the Youth Conference and Awards Dinner in November. 

Much more information on Green Expo is at: 

http://greenexpo.uk

According to the Green Skills Taskforce 2021 report over 30,000 new jobs will be created in the North West by 2050 to get the UK to NetZero, and according to Net Zero North West this will sustain up to 650,000 jobs, the largest number of all the UK regions.

CHASE, Cheshire Heritage and Sustainability Enterprises Community Interest Company, the organisation behind the event, is a not-for-profit community interest company, the directors take no remuneration for their activities.

Any surplus from Green Expo will go into restoring and creating the Hydro Hub by the Old Dee Bridge into Handbridge, Chester and into building a stronger Green Expo for future years.

This will again be a great event showcasing and explaining the significant number of green initiatives and investments in and around the region.

Pictured - The winning entries on display in Chester Cathedral.