This is a worthwhile cause and one that deserves awareness and recognition.
Unfortunately the deadline is over for entries but the ethos should gain support and we should celebrate the nominees and winners!

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 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.  

For further information please contact:

Christine Crowther, Press Office, 0203 353 2219

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