Children in Narberth are aiming to reduce their carbon footprint by planting trees in the grounds of a local community centre.

Bloomfield House Community Centre's after-school club joined forces with Pembrokeshire-based environment group TransitioNarbeth (CORR) to plant fruit and nut trees in their eco garden at the centre during National Tree Week.

Bloomfield House is one of three community centres across Wales taking part in the Welsh Assembly Government's Climate Change Challenge. The three centres will compete to find fun and innovative ways to reduce their carbon footprint individually and as a community through everyday actions.

As well as helping Bloomfield play its part in the Climate Change Challenge, the children enjoyed learning about how planting trees helps to tackle climate change, as the fruit and nuts they provide will not have been transported long distances before they are eaten.

The first tree to be planted was a Sunset - which will soon provide healthy dessert apples for the afterschool club, Bloomfield Nursery, Cylch Meithrin and Cylch Ti a Fi.

Vicki Travers-Milne, development worker at Bloomfield House, said: "TransitioNarbeth wrote to us a few weeks ago and asked if we would be interested in taking part in their tree-planting scheme.

"The scheme is based on the principle that fruit and nut trees are sponsored and donated by members of the community and planted in public spaces around Narbeth, so that everyone can benefit from the produce in the future, encouraging healthy eating and locally sourced food.

"The children from our after-school club enjoyed planting the trees and are now looking forward to eating the fruit and nuts from them. I keep having to explain that it takes time for them to grow!

"Six trees in total are being planted at Bloomfield. Other trees have been planted on the town moor, the Sunny Bank residential home, PLANED (Pembrokeshire Local Action Network for Enterprise and Development) and Narbeth swimming pool."

TransitioNarbeth is part of the nationwide Transition movement, in which community groups examine how their local community can respond to the challenges of climate change.

TransitioNarbeth representative Liz O'Neill, who was on hand to help the children plant the trees at the community centre, said: "Bloomfield's agreement to host trees on their site is positively supporting our project as it is such a well used centre, by the whole community.

"We hope the children in particular will benefit from the fruit in the future."