Six teams of entrepreneurial school pupils faced a panel of ‘dragons’ in a bid to win funding for their social enterprise ideas.

And a community cinema, a nail bar, a school newspaper, a library, an internet course for older people and sugar and gluten-free lollipops were some of the savvy ideas selected for this year’s finale.

The event took place at West College Scotland, Paisley Campus, where the six finalist teams were invited to present their ideas to the ‘dragons’ before they selected this year’s overall winner, Gryffe High School.

The Gryffe High team, based in Houston, were also named as the secondary school winners and awarded £600 towards their community cinema idea.

Winners in the primary school category were Wallace Primary, in Elderslie, for their idea of creating a library for the primary and nursery children.

The pre-five category winners were Our Lady of Peace Nursery, in Linwood, for their ‘Little Lollipop League’ plan to use sugar/gluten-free lollipops to raise awareness of road safety.

Trophies were presented by Renfrewshire’s Provost Anne Hall, who described the youngsters’ ideas as “impressive”.

Provost Anne Hall said: “I’d like to congratulate the winners Gryffe High, as well as each of the finalists who all did a fantastic job coming up with and presenting really impressive, viable business ideas.

“The schools’ Dragon’s Den competition is an excellent way of getting young people thinking about running a business as well as giving back to their community in some way.

“I’d also like to thank the sponsors for their support and contributions in making this event possible each year.

“It was a fantastic night. All of the teams did an excellent job, especially the children from Our Lady of Peace Nursery who were very good despite it being a late night for them.” The Dragons this year were Liz Connolly, vice principal of the college, James Lang, marketing director of Scottish Leather Group, Jay Lamb, Social Enterprise Academy, Alison Dowling, Renfrewshire Wide Credit Union, Bob Davidson, chief executive of Renfrewshire Chamber of Commerce and Gaynor Hutton, project oskar, Kibbleworks in Paisley.