Regional Awards
Awards of up to £1,000 will be presented to winning schools in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. which demonstrate oustanding commitment to charity, community, campaigning and social enterprise actions.

Awards will be presented to the school charity team and their teacher at an awards ceremony organised by Giving Nation. With your help, we will make sure your success receives as much media attention as possible.  Each winning school will be invited to an all expenses paid awards day in London giving 5 student representatives and a teacher from your school the opportunity to see London  and to receive your award at a glitzy awards ceremony hosted by the government.

All Giving Nation Challenge schools are eligible to enter the Giving Nation awards automatically and the awards programme is open to all U.K secondary schols.

The Deadline for entry is Monday 29th July 2009 at 9am.

National Award
Each year the Giving Nation National Award gives one overall winning school the opportunity to spend a week experiencing the work of a charity in the U.K or overseas.

In 2009 we will select one overall winning school to travel to India to support the work of World Vision.


Win £1000 towards charity action at your school or a once-in-a-lifetime trip to India to support the work of World Vision!







Giving Nation Awards Trips to date
In previous years winners have travelled to South Africa with the British Red Cross, India with Save the Children, worked on intercultural dialogue and conflict resolution with young people from Israel, Palestine and the U.S through the work of  Encompass and worked on a National Trust schools partnership programme in Wales. The 2008 winners of the 2007 Awards spent a week with Sightsavers experiencing their work to prevent and cure blindness in Malawi.The winners of the 2008 Giving Nation awards, Rushcliffe Comprehensive School will travel to Cameroon with The Rainforest Foundation!

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Enter the G-Nation Awards by 20th July 2009 and you could find yourself travelling to Chennai, India with World Vision and your charity team.

The Prizegiving
Over the past 4 years, Giving Nation winners from around the U.K have come together with MPs, celebrities, ambassadors and host of other government, press and voluntary sector figures to celebrate their actions to make a difference at 11 Downing Street and HM Treasury.

Each year the Giving Nation awards ceremony combines the official prize giving, press opportunities and activities like boat trips along the Thames and on the London Eye giving young winners the chance to meet fellow G-Nation winners from across the country.

All winners are presented with a Giving Nation Award certificate, photographs from the day and their cheque by ministers and the G-Nation team.

Throughout The Year
Giving Nation recognises that pupils who are active for others are probably very busy!  They’re also pretty enthusiastic and perhaps sufficiently energetic to want to tell all on the site for their Awards entry.  They’ll need your encouragement and we’ll send them ours too!