Entry to the Giving Nation Social Action Awards has now closed and will re-open in September 2010

This year our Awards partner is Concern Universal, the winning school will win the opportunity to visit The Gambia, West Africa with Concern Universal and witness firsthand their work

The Giving Nation Awards are designed to bring attention to the amazing work done by schools that support charity and community.

To enter the Giving Nation Awards you will need to enter your school’s unique username and login. To find out more or receive your school’s unique log in please contact Giving Nation by email
g-nation@citizenshipfoundation.org.uk or phone 0207 566 4141

To log on to the Giving Nation Awards with your school’s log in details visit www.g-nation.co.uk/awards/ 

Helping your students to achieve
Giving Nation are here to provide more recognition for young people’s efforts to help those in need.  By putting together an Award Entry you will not only have your school’s very own online space to promote all the community and charitable activities going on at your school but by writing about your work and demonstrating your school’s work to support charities and the community, your students will be able to feel a real sense of pride and ownership for their achievements. Entry to the Giving Nation Awards helps you to meet Citizenship and PSHE requirements, by supporting students in:

• developing knowledge and understanding of the role of individuals and community groups in bringing about change;
• developing skills of enquiry and communication in social and cultural issues, and justifying orally and in writing opinions raised on those issues;
• developing skills to negotiate, decide, and take part responsibly in both school and community-based activities; and
• reflecting on the process of participation.

Show the world just how great your school is!
The awards entry process is designed to act as a worthwhile project to support a positive school ethos, helping to promote your school to other U.K schools, media and any one else who visits the school’s section of the Giving Nation website here where your entry will automatically be displayed once you log in. 

Empowering your students to tell the world how they are changing it
We hope that your students find documenting their actions to make a difference in their online diary both motivating and empowering. The School Council and/or Charity Committee can take the lead in finding out about and making note of all the charity, community, social enterprise, campaigning and volunteering actions taking place across your school and writing and uploading images of the actions in the online diary. 


The photo gallery of a typical awards diary

Link your awards diary to your school’s and other websites
Once you have set up your online awards entry you can link the entry back to your school’s website to demonstrate to parents, teachers and the community the positive actions carried out by your school.

Teachers - please refer to the Rules of Entry, Judging Criteria and Guidelines for entrants when overseeing pupils’ work to pull together their Diary. 

The Giving Nation Awards were created to bring recognition and give visibility to existing activity for charity and community - not to give pupils a competitive reason to help.  We acknowledge the thousands of schools across the nation whose efforts for others seek no reward or recognition, and work to support not lead that activity.

Teachers who have lost their username and password details or would like more information  should email
g-nation@citizenshipfoundation.org.uk or call  the Giving Nation Team on 020 7566 4141 - many thanks and Good Luck!