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A BURY student has been awarded a prize by Prince Charles after his stamp design won a national competition.
Logan Pearson, a Year 8 student at Bury CE High School, was one of eight winners of the Royal Mail’s Heroes Stamp Design Competition.
The competition, which was announced last year, challenged school-aged children to design a stamp in honour of unsung heroes doing extraordinary work during the coronavirus pandemic.
Logan’s illustration of a lab technician at work was one of more than 600,000 entries from across the country and one of thirty designs submitted to the competition by his school.
Every design entered contributed towards a Guinness World Record title for the largest stamp design competition.
After two semi-finals narrowed down the competition to just one hundred and twenty entries, the eight winning designs were approved by the Queen herself.
The announcement that Logan was an overall winner came as “a big surprise”.
Almost a year after submitting his entry, Logan and his mum Caroline travelled to Clarence House in London where the Prince of Wales awarded him with a framed Guinness World Record certificate and £1000 of spending money.
Caroline said: “To get to the next stage and then to the regional finals as well, we just never imagined it would go that far.
“I thought they were going to choose one picture per region, I didn’t realise it was going to be just eight overall.
“When he got through to the regionals and we saw the picture that he was up against, it was a very good picture, and it was of Captain Tom Moore and I just thought that was as far as it was going to go, he did really well to get there.”
Once at Clarence House, the Prince took the time to speak with each child, asking them about their favourite subjects, and what they wanted to do after they left school.
“Where were going and who we were going to meet was also a massive surprise”, said Caroline, but added Charles was “really quite chatty, friendly and welcoming”.
For Logan, the experience of meeting the heir to the throne was exciting but “scary” and says he plans to save up the prize money he received.
This week, the Royal Mail revealed Logan’s design on a hoarding at a bus stop close to his school and announced that all the winning stamps are now available on general sale.
