Cash Prize For Green Champs

£500, runners-up prizes, up for grabs in the Wandsworth Green Champions awards

Sponsor Thames Water has offered to fund the prizes for the awards, which recognise residents, schools and community groups that go the extra mile to recycle more and waste less.

Categories include recycling and waste minimisation champion, green project or group and green champion. Anyone who lives, attends school or runs a green group in the borough is eligible. You can enter yourself or nominate someone else.

Schools can enter the primary/junior school or secondary/sixth form college category. In both cases judges will be looking for what the school does to protect the environment and the quality of environmental education they provide to pupils.

Previous winners have included the founder of the Transition Town Tooting movement, a family that throws out less than one bag of rubbish a week, a cycling project, and schools that grow their own vegetables and work with students on environmental projects.

2011 Categories

Green Champion

Open to anyone, this category recognises an individual's outstanding contribution to the local environment, however this contribution was made.

Green Project or Group

Open to any organisation, group, class or green project. Groups will be judged on the contribution they make to the local environment. Council projects are excluded, however projects part-funded by the council are eligible.

Green Primary/Junior School

Schools will be assessed on what they do to protect the environment as an organisation, and on the quality of environmental education they provide to pupils.

Green school Secondary School/ 6th Form College

Judges will assess what they do to protect the environment as an organisation and the quality of environmental education they provide to pupils.

Waste Minimisation and Recycling Champion/s

Does your flat-share go all-out to recycle everything? Maybe you compost vegetable peelings, have traded in your car for a bicycle or only take no-fly holidays? This category is open to individuals and groups who have made a big effort to reduce the amount of waste produced or have done so in innovative ways.

June 16, 2011