Your School or College Champion will progress to the next round of the competition in one of up to 50 towns or cities in England, to compete against other students for the title of County Champion.  At the county stage, students will be asked to recite one poem from the Poetry By Heart anthology that was published before 1914 and  one poem from the Poetry By Heart anthology published in or after 1914.  These may be the same poems prepared for the school or college competition, or different.

The county contests have mainly been grouped into ceremonial counties for the second stage of the competition. Take a look below to see which group your county is in.

Click on your county name in blue to view details of your contest and register your school/college winner. Phone us on 0117 9055338 if you have any problems.

East of England

Cambridgeshire – Cambridgeshire, Peterborough

Essex – Essex, Thurrock, Southend-on-Sea

Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire - Hertfordshire, Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Luton

Suffolk – Suffolk

South West England

Avon- Somerset, Bristol & South Gloucestershire

Cornwall – Cornwall, Isles of Scilly

Devon – Devon, Plymouth, Torbay

Dorset – Bournemouth, Dorset, Poole

Gloucestershire – Gloucestershire

Wiltshire- Wiltshire, Swindon

South East England

Berkshire – Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor & Maidenhead, Wokingham

Buckinghamshire – Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes

East Sussex and West Sussex – East Sussex, Brighton and Hove

Hampshire & Isle of Wight – Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, Southampton

Kent – Kent, Medway

Oxfordshire – Oxfordshire

Surrey – Surrey

 

West Midlands

Birmingham and Warwickshire - Birmingham, Warwickshire

Herefordshire & Worcestershire – Herefordshire, Worcestershire

Shropshire and Staffordshire - Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent

West Midlands – Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, Wolverhampton

East Midlands

Leicestershire & Rutland, Derbyshire and Northamptonshire - Leicester, Leicestershire, Rutland, Derby, Derbyshire, Northamptonshire

Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire - Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire

Yorkshire and the Humber

North Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire – North Yorkshire, York, East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, North East Lincs, North Lincs

West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire: Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds, Wakefield, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield

 

North East England

County Durham – Darlington, Durham, Hartlepool, Middlesborough, Redcar & Cleveland, Stockton-on-Tees

Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland

North West England

Cheshire – Cheshire East, Cheshire West & Chester, Halton, Warrington

Cumbria - Cumbria

Greater Manchester and Manchester - Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Wigan, Manchester, Salford, Trafford

Lancashire – Blackpool, Lancashire, Blackburn & Darwen

Merseyside – Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral, Liverpool

London

Central – City of Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea, Wandsworth, Lambeth, Southwark, City, Tower Hamlets

East - Barking & Dagenham, Bexley, Greenwich, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Hackney

North – Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, Islington, Waltham Forest

South – Bromley, Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, Sutton, Lewisham

West – Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow