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Community Group / charity / non-profit

Run a super-successful community group or charity that is making a big difference when it comes to sustainability? Your organisation may be an environment-focussed organisation, or your primary purpose may be something different, but you will have made a difference with environmental initiatives. Enter here if this sounds like you. This category recognises projects of sustainable energy, climate resilience, environmental and social best practice or environmental and social innovation.

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Green Ideas Youth Award

New for 2024 is a ‘Green Ideas Youth’ category. We want to hear from young people about why the environment and its future is important to them and their ideas for living and working in a more sustainable way.

Open to Primary Key Stage 2 (Years 3-6) and Secondary Key Stage 3 (Years 7-9)

For more information on the competition and the themes please click here 

How to Enter

Create an entry in any art form –painting, drawing, collage, poetry, photography, dance, music, drama or sculpture. We welcome all artistic mediums. The entry can be physical, literary or created using technology.

Each entry should include an accompanying write up providing meaningful commentary related to the chosen theme. The writing up should connect to the theme and idea created by the students. These commentaries will play a significant role in the judging process.

Email it directly to [email protected]

Please include the following in the Subject Line ‘Green Ideas Youth’ Entry [insert school name].

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School / educational organisation

Does your school, college or university run brilliant environmental initiatives? Maybe you’ve run one amazingly successful initiative, or you run ongoing activities. Tell us about it and enter here. This category recognises projects of sustainable energy, climate resilience, environmental and social best practice or environmental and social innovation.

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Micro business

(0-9 employees)

Is your business going above and beyond when it comes to sustainability? Or perhaps your business is all about sustainability and helps the people of Exeter to make more sustainable choices? If this sounds like you and you have 0-9 employees, enter here. This category recognises projects of sustainable energy, climate resilience, environmental and social best practice or environmental and social innovation. Consider energy, pollution, waste, water use, transport, purchasing and the local economy, buildings and land use, community participation.

Small business

(10-49 employees)

Is your business going above and beyond when it comes to sustainability? Or perhaps your business is all about sustainability and helps the people of Exeter to make more sustainable choices? If this sounds like you and you have between 10-49 employees, enter here. This category recognises projects of sustainable energy, climate resilience, environmental and social best practice or environmental and social innovation. Consider energy, pollution, waste, water use, transport, purchasing and the local economy, buildings and land use, community participation.

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Medium / Large business

(50+ employees)

Are you a business with more than 50 employees that stands out when it comes to sustainability initiatives? Perhaps you have managed to significantly reduce employee’s car journeys to work, or you enable your staff to take part in environmental initiatives in the city. If this sounds like you, enter here. This category recognises projects of sustainable energy, climate resilience, environmental and social best practice or environmental and social innovation. Consider energy, pollution, waste, water use, transport, purchasing and the local economy, buildings and land use, community participation.

Sustainable Hero

Do you know of an individual in your local community who is making a difference when it comes to the local environment? Perhaps a neighbour has coordinated a group of litter pickers, a project in their educational settingor has gone above and beyond in volunteering for a local environmental cause.

Here’s the place to nominate those amazing people who stand out in helping Exeter become more environmentally sustainable. You can also nominate yourself.

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