WIN £6000 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. We 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 Ecover ethical kids award is open to school groups or youth community groups whose members 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.

Lucy Siegle, Ethical Living Correspondent, The Observer and chair of the judging panel said: “The ethical kids award is growing and the entries we have had over the five years are incredibly heartwarming and encouraging. Last year I had the opportunity to see the benefit that winning the Ecover ethical kids award had when I revisited Lomeshaye Marsh Local Nature Reserve. What the kids there were achieving was truly inspirational.”

The deadline for entries is the 12 March 2010 and the winners will be announced at a ceremony in London later this year.

For more information on the Ethical Awards visit: www.observer.co.uk/ethicalawards.

iMAGE above: one of the winner's of last's years ethical kids category - Stockbridge Junior Rangers who won in conjunction with Lomeshaye Marsh Local Nature Reserve