ARE YOU READY TO GET CREATIVE?

As part of our upcoming Show The Love campaign, we’re on the lookout for the best green heart bunting in the country so that we can show it off at our Green Heart Hero Awards this March. Think you and your pupils have what it takes? Gather your supplies and get busy crafting a beautiful bunting full of green hearts and enter it in our competition!

This is a wonderful chance for your pupils to not only get creative, but put their minds to work by having them think about all the ways they and their friends can help protect the things they love from climate change.

All you need to get started are scissors, string, green paper, and felt tip pens. Long or short, big or small, every colour in the rainbow — let your creativity fly and create a bunting as unique as your class is. On the bunting, have your pupils write or draw what climate challenge they’re taking on individually, with their family, or as a class.

Personal challenges will be a key part of Show The Love this year, and we’d love to see all the actions your class are taking written on the Green Hearts.

If you want to take part, host a session with your class to make a string of Green Heart Bunting. Long or short, big or small, and all along the colour spectrum, you can be as creative as you want. On the bunting, pupils can write individual challenges they are taking, or actions you are taking as a class, to reduce their contribution to climate change. Examples of this include:

It’s time to get creative! Bring out the scissors, string, green paper and felt tip pens - that’s all you need for your class to pull together a bunting full of beautiful green hearts.

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO

As part of Show The Love this year, we’re hosting a competition to find the best Green Heart Bunting in town, and put it on display at our Green Heart Hero awards ceremony in March!

This is a great chance for schoolchildren to get creative, but also to help them think. What am I, and what are we as a class, going to do to help stop our contribution to climate change? Personal challenges will be a key part of Show The Love this year, and we’d love to see all the actions your class are taking written on the Green Hearts.

If you want to take part, host a session with your class to make a string of Green Heart Bunting. Long or short, big or small, and all along the colour spectrum, you can be as creative as you want. On the bunting, pupils can write individual challenges they are taking, or actions you are taking as a class, to reduce their contribution to climate change. Examples of this include:

  • I will eat meat-free for one day this week

  • Our class will plant 30 trees in the school grounds

  • I will re-use my paper rather than throw it away

  • I will reduce my food waste at lunchtime

 

HOW TO ENTER

You can either post your bunting for the attention of Mark Robinson to, The Climate Coalition, Romero House, 55 Westminster Bridge Rd., London, SE1 7JB; or scan and send a digital version to mark@theclimatecoalition.org with the subject line ‘Green Heart Bunting Competition’. Please send your bunting to us before Friday 16th February.

Be sure to include a covering letter with each of the contributors names, ages, class and school, as well as the teachers name and contact email address and phone number.

 

WHAT DO WE WIN?

Two students and one teacher from the winning school will be invited to attend the Green Heart Hero Awards in the Terrace Pavilion in The Palace of Westminster, 7pm - 9pm, 11th March. Here your bunting will be on display for MPs to see and you’ll receive a special mention in the schools category announcement.

 

I HAVE QUESTIONS...

If you’re feeling unsure as to what you need to do, please don’t hesitate to contact Mark at mark@theclimatecoalition.org

 

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

 

  • This competition is being hosted by The Climate Coalition

  • The competition will open on Monday 7th January 2018 and close on Friday 16th February 2018.

  • Only entries that comply with all entry instructions will be accepted.

  • The competition is open to pupils of any school.

  • Entrants are required to create a bunting made of green hearts, and may optionally write on this bunting the steps pupils are taking, as individuals or as a class, to reduce their contribution to climate change.

  • There is no minimum or maximum group size that can contribute to the creation of the Green Heart Bunting.

  • Two students and one teacher from the winning school will be invited to the Green Heart Hero Awards in The Houses of Parliament on 11th March, 7pm - 9pm. The Climate Coalition will contribute towards travel costs with an amount of their choosing.

  • Entries will be ranked based on the following three criteria:

    • Appearance: How aesthetic is the bunting, and how creative is it?

    • Content: What has been written on the green hearts? What commitments are pupils making?

  • Entries will only be accepted if they come accompanied by a letter with each of the contributors names, ages, class and school, as well as the teachers name and contact email address and phone number.

  • Competition entries should be sent to The Climate Coalition, Romero House, 55 Westminster Bridge Rd., London, SE1 7JB

  • The Climate Coalition takes no responsibility for late entries, or entries not successfully uploaded.

  • The winning class will be contacted by Friday 23rd February, 17:00 either via email or telephone.

  • The winners’ schools will be contacted by email or telephone.  If the winning individual/school cannot be contacted after reasonable attempts have been made, First News/WWF-UK reserves the right to offer the prize to another competition entrant.

  • Entries may feature in communications by the The Climate Coalition member organisations.

  • Any contact details supplied will be used for administering the competition and otherwise in accordance with The Climate Coalition’s privacy policy which can be found at https://www.theclimatecoalition.org/privacy-policy

  • A representative teacher of the entrant’s school must submit the entry on the pupil’s behalf and by doing so agrees and accepts:

    • these terms and conditions;

    • that The Climate Coalition may publish pictures of the competition entries online, including on their websites, social media channels, and for PR purposes;

    • that the school and the winning pupil(s) may be invited to participate in publicity arising from this competition.

    • that by entering this competition you agree to be contacted about The Climate Coalition’s work with schools in the future – this is in accordance with data protection policy as specified on the registration form.

  • The decision of the judges is final and at the absolute discretion of the judges’ panel.   No correspondence will be entered into.

  • The Climate Coalition reserves the right to cancel this competition without notice at any stage if it is deemed necessary at the absolute discretion of The Climate Coalition or where events beyond its control prevent proper administration of the competition.

  • The competition is administered by The Climate Coalition.

  • These terms and conditions and any disputes arising out of them shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.

  • The Climate Coalition reserves the right to amend these Terms and Conditions at any time during and post competition.

  • The data controller of this competition is The Climate Coalition, Romero House, 55 Westminster Bridge Rd., London, SE1 7JB.