Competitions
Tenner's back with even more cash!
Make Your Mark with a Tenner (run by Enterprise UK), loans young people £10 and challenges them to make a profit and make a difference during March this year. Students need to show enterprising spirit and make as much profit as possible in a way which benefits their community.
Whether you’re a teacher looking to register or find out more, or a young person looking to get involved - you're in the right place! Find out more >>
The euro: What does it mean to us? - Photo competition for young people in Europe
This is a photo competition for EU residents from 14 to 18 years old, working together in teams to explore the theme of the euro in the European Union.
What does the euro mean to you? What is it that you like about the euro? To participate, you need to submit an original photo, taken by your team, illustrating your vision of the euro. The image must also be accompanied by a short explanatory caption. Find out more >>
The competition deadline is Wednesday 31 March 2010.
Observer Ethical Awards 2010 - Win £6,000 towards an Ethical Kids Project
The Observer Ethical Awards, in association with Ecover, have launched for 2010. Now in their fifth year, the awards pay tribute to the great and the green. They are on the look out for kids who have been sitting up and taking action against climate change, who are learning to respect their environment and see the importance its plays in their future.
Past winners have included: young eco filmmakers, a special-needs school and their local nature reserve project and a group of junior rangers who transformed their local green space. The award is open to school groups or youth community groups whose members are aged under 16 on 1 January 2010. Ecover will provide a bursary of £2,000 a year for three years to go towards the winning group or individual's sustainable project.
The deadline for entries is the 12 March 2010 and the winners will be announced at a ceremony in London later this year. Find out more >>
Young Brits At Art 2010
The Equality and Human Rights Commission is asking young Britons to express their vision of a world free from prejudice for Young Brits at Art 2010.
This year the national art award invites 11-19 year olds to explore their beliefs, opinions and judgments by asking: “What would the world look like if we lived without prejudice?”
Young Brits at Art 2010 includes new categories such as photography, sculpture and motion animation, as well as its previous sections for painting and drawing. National curriculum teaching packs are available to guide schools, pupil referral units, religious groups and other organisations that wish to explore the meaning of equality and human rights through art. Young people can also develop their own artwork and enter independently.
How you choose to define prejudice is up to you and there will be 45 workshops held across Britain by arts professionals to support you if you'd like to take part.
Free teaching resources and more information is available online: www.equalityhumanrights.com/art
Email: art@equalityhumanrights.com
Contact: 0845 604 6610
Closing Date: Wednesday 24 March 2010
2Young2Die campaign competition! Enter now!
If you are aged between 11 and 25 and want to make a difference and save your generation’s lives on roads, then enter this competition and WIN BIG! Many thanks to sponsorship from Red Driving School, with support from How’s My Driving.
Road deaths are a huge killer of young people. Every day on British roads, 6 young people aged 12-19 are killed or seriously hurt on foot or bicycles, and 19 young people under 25 are killed or seriously hurt in cars.
Email Brake for an entry form TODAY on 2young2die@brake.org.uk. The deadline for entries is 30 April 2010, but great road safety campaigning takes time, so get planning with your mates NOW!
Young Hands Together for Diversity International Art Competition
This competition is part of a worldwide youth education initiative on biodiversity to provide children and young people with useful information and help them participate in protecting, preserving and improving biodiversity in their communities. The theme for the competition is biodiversity and what it means to young people around the world.
The competition is open to children and young people between 6 to 20 years in three age categories: 6‐10 years, 11‐15 years and 16‐20 years. Last year there were 1,400 entries from 46 countries around the world. The competition is an activity of the Youth and United Nations Global Alliance (YUNGA) and The Green Wave for biodiversity.
Competition rules
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Only one entry is permitted per young person.
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Send your artwork to FAO via email or ordinary post.
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Send in your entry before the deadline. All entries must be received by 15 June 2010.
Send your entry to children‐youth@fao.org. The competition closes on 15 June 2010. Find out more >>
The Volvo Adventure Competition
The Volvo Adventure - in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme - is an educational programme that rewards environmental activities and the decision-makers of the future. To enter, you form a team of 2 to 5 members aged 13 to 16 (at competition opening - July 1st 2009). Perform an environmental project in your local community and submit the project via our online submission tool before the competition deadline, January 31st 2011.
Projects are judged and the best projects are selected for an all expenses paid trip to Göteborg, Sweden where they can win: 1st place = 10,000 USD, 2nd = 6,000 USD and 3rd = 4,000 USD.
Get started - visit the website
All you need to do to get started is to go to the Volvo Adventure website. There you will find everything you need to register your project. You will receive a start-up package with instructions on how to proceed. We look forward to seeing your network’s projects! Good luck and remember – it could be your project in the 10th birthday final!
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