Former Sheldon School pupil Ben Jones has visited Prime Minister David Cameron at Downing Street to advise him on Holocaust education.

Mr Jones, 21, won a national competition, along with five others, to propose new ways to remember the Holocaust and suggested that Holocaust Memorial Day could be televised on the BBC alongside the creation of an e-learning platform recording Holocaust survivor testimonies.

He said: “The big problem is that there are not many survivors of the Holocaust left to share their stories. I am trying to find ways of ensuring that the lessons of the Holocaust are remembered so that such an atrocity cannot happen again.”

Mr Jones, who founded the Chippenham Food Festival at Sheldon School before going on to study at Cambridge University, first got involved in conflict prevention when he won a competition to visit Auschwitz with the Lessons from Auschwitz programme.

The Downing Street meeting was part of a series of consultations for the Holocaust Commission’s report, which will be presented to the Prime Minister.