Sponsored by Danetre Daventry Rotary Club

For young people in the areas of Daventry, Long Buckby, Everdon, Weedon, Newnham, Woodford Halse, Welton, Norton, Guilsborough.

Age groups

 Junior up to and including age 10 

 Intermediate age 11-13 

 Senior age 14-17 

Two categories for each age group

  Individual entries

  Group entries with up to 12 participants

Themes – Waste minimization and carbon emission reduction

Young people, with the support of their school, Scout, Guide or other community, are invited to present a project on one or more topics concerning reducing waste or carbon emissions.

The project will show understanding of the topic, why it is important and offer some solutions to problems. If there are financial costs involved, these should be worked out. 

Choose a topic from the following list or decide and explore your own topic within the themes of waste or carbon emission reduction.

Topic ideas

• Turn waste into new useful objects or art

• Address problems of ‘fast fashion’

• Explore ways of reducing food waste – at home, at school, within community, in shops

• Increase use of still edible but discarded food

• Find uses for single-use plastic items

• Find novel ways of using plastic

• Reducing litter in your environment – school or local community

• How to reduce carbon-emitting travel – family, school, local community or nationally and internationally

• Go Net Zero: work out your team or family carbon footprint and how to reduce it

• Explore ways to reduce throwing away of products and items which are still usable.

• Re-wilding of a particular area – at home, at school or in local community

• Re-ponding: restore a pond to increase its positive environmental impact

• Plant wildflower seeds or bulbs and explore how they have an impact on their environment  

How to present your project

Presentation may include one or more of the following:

• Written and illustrated projects

• Artistic presentations

• Photographic presentations

• Audio or video reports 

• Music or dance presentations

        Power Point

• A product such as an App for a smart phone

THE PRIZES

3 prizes within each age group: £500 for the winning group, to help with carrying out the project. 

Two individual prizes to the value of £50.

Local businesses and organisations will be involved in the judging of projects.  

These local winners are eligible to be entered for the Rotary District 1070 competition in 2025. Rotary 1070 covers the area from Daventry in the west to Skegness in the east and Lincoln in the north to Cambridge in the south.

THE DATES

Entries open 1st October 2024

Entries close 3rd February 2025

Local judging 28th March 2025

Winners notified 8th April 2025

A date and place will be agreed to present the prizes

Local winners notified to Rotary District on 31st March 2025

HOW TO ENTER

Please use this link to the Google entry form for you to complete

QUESTIONS?

Please contact Danetre Daventry Rotary Club as below.